Synonyms of the word

knave

• n. (archaic) A boy; especially, a boy servant.
• n. (archaic) Any male servant; a menial.
• n. A tricky, deceitful fellow; a dishonest person; a rogue; a villain.
• n. (card games) A playing card marked with the figure of a servant or soldier; a jack.

jack

• n. A mechanical device used to raise and (temporarily) support a heavy object, e.g. screw jack, scissor jack,…
• n. A man or men in general.
• n. A male animal.
• n. A male ass.
• n. (card games) A playing card with the letter "J" and the image of a knave or prince on it, the eleventh…
• n. (cricket) The eleventh batsman to come to the crease in an innings, derived from the playing card.
• n. (archaic) A knave (a servant or later, a deceitful man).
• n. Mangifera caesia, related to the mango tree.
• n. A surface-mounted connector for electrical, especially telecommunications, equipment.
• n. (sports) A target ball in bowls, etc; a jack-ball.
• n. (games) A small, six-pointed playing piece used in the game of jacks.
• n. (colloquial, euphemistic) Nothing, jack shit.
• n. (nautical) A small flag at the bow of a ship.
• n. (nautical) A naval ensign flag flown from the main mast, mizzen mast, or the aft-most major mast of (especially)…
• n. (military) A coarse and cheap medieval coat of defense, especially one made of leather.
• n. A penny with a head on both sides, used for cheating.
• n. (slang) Money.
• n. (slang, Appalachians) A smooth often ovoid large gravel or small cobble in a natural water course.
• n. The freshwater pike, green pike or pickerel.
• n. A large California rockfish, the bocaccio, Sebastes paucispinis.
• n. Any of the marine fish in the family Carangidae.
• n. (obsolete, nautical) A sailor, a jacktar.
• n. (obsolete) A pitcher or can of waxed leather, supposed to resemble a jackboot; a black-jack.
• n. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) A drinking measure holding half a pint or, sometimes, a quarter of a pint.
• n. A mechanical contrivance, an auxiliary machine, or a subordinate part of a machine.
• n. Female ended electrical connector (see Electrical connector).
• n. Electrical connector in a fixed position (see Gender of connectors and fasteners).
• v. (transitive) To use a jack.
• v. (transitive) To raise or increase.
• v. To produce by freeze distillation; to distil (an alcoholic beverage) by freezing it and removing the ice…
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To steal something, typically an automobile. Shortened form of carjacking.
• v. (intransitive) To dance by moving the torso forward and backward in a rippling motion.
• n. (slang, baseball) A home run.
• v. (transitive, slang, baseball) To hit (the ball) hard; especially, to hit (the ball) out of the field,…
• n. A coarse mediaeval coat of defence, especially one made of leather.
• n. A jackfruit tree.

rapscallion

• n. A rascal, scamp, rogue, or scoundrel.
• n. (attributive) Roguish, disreputable.

rascal

• n. A dishonest person; a rogue; a scoundrel; a trickster.
• n. A cheeky person or creature, sometimes diminutive; a troublemaker.
• n. A member of a criminal gang in Papua New Guinea.
• adj. (archaic) Low; lowly, part of or belonging to the common rabble.

rogue

• n. A scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person.
• n. A mischievous scamp.
• n. A vagrant.
• n. (computing) Deceitful software pretending to be anti-spyware, but in fact being malicious software itself.
• n. An aggressive animal separate from the herd, especially an elephant.
• n. A plant that shows some undesirable variation.
• n. (role-playing games) A character class focusing on stealthy conduct.
• adj. (of an animal, especially an elephant) Vicious and solitary.
• adj. (by extension) Large, destructive and unpredictable.
• adj. (by extension) Deceitful, unprincipled.
• adj. Mischievous, unpredictable.
• v. (horticulture) To cull; to destroy plants not meeting a required standard. Especially when saving seed,…
• v. (obsolete) To give the name or designation of rogue to; to decry.
• v. (obsolete) To wander; to play the vagabond; to play knavish tricks.

scalawag

• n. (pejorative, archaic) A scrawny cow.
• n. (pejorative, archaic) A rascal.
• n. (pejorative, US, archaic or historical) Any white Southerner who supported the federal plan of Reconstruction…

scallywag

• n. (pejorative, dated, chiefly Britain) A disreputable fellow, a good-for-nothing, a scapegrace, a blackguard.

scoundrel

• n. A mean, worthless fellow; a rascal; a villain; a person without honour or virtue.

varlet

• n. (obsolete) A servant or attendant.
• n. (historical) Specifically, a youth acting as a knight's attendant at the beginning of his training for…
• n. (archaic) A rogue or scoundrel.
• n. (obsolete, card games) The jack.

villain

• n. (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought): A vile, wicked person.
• n. The bad person in a work of fiction; often the main antagonist of the hero.
• n. (poker) Any opponent player, especially a hypothetical player for example and didactic purposes. Compare:…
• n. Archaic form of villein.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To debase; to degrade.