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n. An attendant or servant.

n. A knight's page.

n. A rascal; a knave.

n. A servant or attendant.

n. Specifically, a youth acting as a knight's attendant at the beginning of his training for knighthood.

n. A rogue or scoundrel.

n. The jack.

n. A servant, especially to a knight; an attendant; a valet; a footman.

n. Hence, a low fellow; a scoundrel; a rascal.

n. In a pack of playing cards, the court card now called the knave, or jack.

n. Originally, a very young man of noble or knightly birth, serving an apprenticeship in knightly exercises and accomplishments while awaiting elevation to the rank of knight; hence (because such youths served as pages or personal servants to the knights who had charge of them), a body-servant or attendant. (See valet.) The name was also given to the city bailiffs or Serjeants.

n. Hence, one in a subordinate or menial position; a low fellow; a scoundrel; a rascal; a rogue: a term of contempt or reproach.

n. The coat-card now called the knave or jack (in French, valet).

n. a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel

n. in medieval times a youth acting as a knight's attendant as the first stage in training for knighthood

"She called the varlet within the chapel, and showed him this wonder."

scoundrel    villain    attendant    tender    attender   

attendant    valet    footman    scoundrel    rascal    fellow   

huzzy    malapert    scamp    minx    scapegrace    knave    wretch    scoundrel    reprobate    libertine