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Synonyms for knave

Grammar : Noun
Spell : neyv
Phonetic Transcription : neɪv

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Définition of knave

Origin :
  • Old English cnafa "boy, male servant," common Germanic (cf. Old High German knabo "boy, youth, servant," German knabe "boy, lad," also probably related to Old English cnapa "boy, youth, servant," Old Norse knapi "servant boy," Dutch knaap "a youth, servant," Middle High German knappe "a young squire," German Knappe "squire, shield-bearer"). The original meaning might have been "stick, piece of wood" [Klein]. Sense of "rogue, rascal" first recorded c.1200. In playing cards, "the jack," 1560s.
  • noun rascal
Example sentences :
  • He threw the helmet with a clatter on to the table as if it had been the knave's canting head.
  • Extract from : « Viviette » by William J. Locke
  • He has gone; and, knave as he is, I can hardly help exclaiming, "Luck go with him!"
  • Extract from : « Yankee Gypsies » by John Greenleaf Whittier
  • Here is a knave of a friar calleth me a mad priest, and yet I smite him not.
  • Extract from : « The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood » by Howard Pyle
  • Is it true that you are persecuted by this knave's addresses?'
  • Extract from : « Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit » by Charles Dickens
  • But I always have a little distrust for the foolishness of a person who has once been a knave.
  • Extract from : « Roden's Corner » by Henry Seton Merriman
  • The persecution of which they complained was the persecution of the honest man by the knave.
  • Extract from : « Bunyan » by James Anthony Froude
  • Come, knave, find me a way, or I'll have you broken on the wheel.
  • Extract from : « The Shame of Motley » by Raphael Sabatini
  • "Take this knave and lock him in his chamber," he bade a couple of his bravi.
  • Extract from : « The Shame of Motley » by Raphael Sabatini
  • "It is my wish that counts, you knave," I thundered and advanced upon him.
  • Extract from : « The Strolling Saint » by Raphael Sabatini
  • It was not necessary, you knave, to bring me hither to tell me so much.
  • Extract from : « The Sea-Hawk » by Raphael Sabatini

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