knave

Значение (Английский)

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.

Синонимы

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

Переводы

valet

sota

fante

Bube

boer

🅰️

valete

Schurke

🦹‍♂️

coquin

απατεώνας

bribón

Knabe

schurk

παλιάνθρωπος

κατεργάρης

Произносится как (IPA)

/neɪv/

Этимология (Английский)

Унаследовано от среднеанглийский: knave

Унаследовано от староанглийский: 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.