knave.
A boy; especially, a boy servant.
Meaning & usage
A boy; especially, a boy servant.
Any male servant; a menial.
A tricky, deceitful fellow; a dishonest person.
A playing card marked with the figure of a servant or a soldier.
Where this word comes from
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.
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