knave

Signification (Anglais)

1. (archaic) A boy; especially, a boy servant.
2. (archaic) Any male servant; a menial.
3. (dated) A tricky, deceitful fellow; a dishonest person.
4. A playing card marked with the figure of a servant or a soldier.

Concepts

valet

coquin

fripon

rogue

fripouille

gredin

canaille

garçon

👦

voyou

malfaiteur

page

scélérat

🦹‍♂️

crapule

fourbe

écuyer

vaurien

Synonymes

jack

rogue

rascal

scoundrel

cheat

villain

🦹‍♂️

scalawag

swindler

crook

ruffian

fraud

rapscallion

Jack

trickster

boy

👦

jockey

blackguard

varlet

hoodwinker

deceiver

scallywag

scamp

skunk

🦨

jocular

rotter

rowdy

scapegrace

shark

🦈

sharp

shaver

shuffler

slicker

thief

tricker

valet

victimizer

welcher

welsher

yobbo

shammer

suspicious fellow

shameless man

rascallion

enlisted person

enlisted woman

cozener

circumventor

badman

circumventer

beguiler

Traductions

sota

boer

🅰️

Bube

fante

valete

Schurke

🦹‍♂️

απατεώνας

bribón

Knabe

παλιάνθρωπος

κατεργάρης

schurk

βαλές

vale

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/neɪv/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: knave

Hérité de ancien anglais: cnafa

In summary

From Middle English knave, knafe, from Old English cnafa (“child, boy, youth; servant”), from Proto-West Germanic *knabō. Cognate to Dutch knaap and German Knabe.