Synonyms of the word varlet


VARLETATTENDANT - ATTENDER - KNAVE - PAGE - RAPSCALLION - RASCAL - ROGUE - SCALAWAG - SCALLYWAG - SCOUNDREL - TENDER - VILLAIN

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.

attendant

  • n. One who attends; one who works with or watches something.
  • n. A servant or valet.
  • n. (chiefly archaic) A visitor or caller.
  • adj. Going with; associated; concomitant.
  • adj. (law) Depending on, or owing duty or service to.

attender

  • n. An attendee; one who attends a course, meeting etc.
  • n. (metaphysics) The subject; one who experiences.

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.

page

  • n. One of the many pieces of paper bound together within a book or similar document.
  • n. One side of a paper leaf on which one has written or printed.
  • n. A figurative record or writing; a collective memory.
  • n. (typography) The type set up for printing a page.
  • n. (Internet) A web page.
  • n. (computing) A block of contiguous memory of a fixed length.
  • v. (transitive) To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript.
  • v. (intransitive, often with “through”) To turn several pages of a publication.
  • v. (transitive) To furnish with folios.
  • n. (obsolete) A serving boy – a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, as a position…
  • n. (Britain) A youth employed for doing errands, waiting on the door, and similar service in households.
  • n. (US, Canada) A boy or girl employed to wait upon the members of a legislative body.
  • n. (in libraries) The common name given to an employee whose main purpose is to replace materials that have…
  • n. A boy child.
  • n. A contrivance, as a band, pin, snap, or the like, to hold the skirt of a woman’s dress from the ground.
  • n. A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack.
  • n. Any one of several species of colorful South American moths of the genus Urania.
  • v. (transitive) To attend (someone) as a page.
  • v. (transitive, US, obsolete in UK) To call or summon (someone).
  • v. (transitive) To contact (someone) by means of a pager or other mobile device.
  • v. (transitive) To call (somebody) using a public address system so as to find them.

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.

tender

  • adj. Sensitive or painful to the touch.
  • adj. Easily bruised or injured; not firm or hard; delicate.
  • adj. Physically weak; not able to endure hardship.
  • adj. (of food) Soft and easily chewed.
  • adj. Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained.
  • adj. Fond, loving, gentle, sweet.
  • adj. Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic.
  • adj. Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate.
  • adj. (nautical) Heeling over too easily when under sail; said of a vessel.
  • adj. (obsolete) Exciting kind concern; dear; precious.
  • adj. (obsolete) Careful to keep inviolate, or not to injure; used with of.
  • v. (now rare) To make tender or delicate; to weaken.
  • v. To feel tenderly towards; to regard fondly.
  • n. (obsolete) Regard; care; kind concern.
  • n. The inner flight muscle (pectoralis minor) of poultry.
  • n. (obsolete) Someone who tends or waits on someone.
  • n. (rail transport) A railroad car towed behind a steam engine to carry fuel and water.
  • n. (nautical) A naval ship that functions as a mobile base for other ships.
  • n. (nautical) A smaller boat used for transportation between a large ship and the shore.
  • v. (formal) To offer, to give.
  • v. to offer a payment, as at sales or auctions.
  • n. A means of payment such as a check or cheque, cash or credit card.
  • n. (law) A formal offer to buy or sell something.
  • n. Any offer or proposal made for acceptance.

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.

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