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What (who) is knave - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Knavery; Knave (disambiguation); Knave (magazine)
Knave
·noun Any male servant; a menial.
II. Knave ·noun A boy; especially, a boy servant.
III. Knave ·noun A tricky, deceitful fellow; a dishonest person; a rogue; a villain.
IV. Knave ·noun A playing card marked with the figure of a servant or soldier; a jack.
knave
¦ noun
1. archaic a dishonest or unscrupulous man.
2. (in cards) a jack.
Derivatives
knavery noun (plural knaveries).
knavish adjective
knavishly adverb
knavishness noun
Origin
OE cnafa 'boy, servant', of W. Gmc origin.
knave
n.
1.
Villain, rascal, scoundrel, rogue, cheat, caitiff, swindler, sharper, trickster, scamp, scapegrace.
2.
Jack (of cards).
Wikipedia
Knave
Knave may refer to:
- A rogue (vagrant), a rascal, deceitful fellow, a dishonest man
- Knave (playing card), another name for the jack in card games
- Knave (British magazine), a British softcore pornographic magazine published 1968-2015
- Knave (American magazine), a short-lived American men's magazine published in 1959
- The Knave, a Welsh hillfort also known as Deborah's Hole Camp
- In Knights and Knaves logic puzzles, a person who always lies
- A male domestic worker, a person who works within the employer's household (kitchen boy in Middle English)
Examples of use of knave
1. It seems that Mr Mills‘s defence would be that he has been a fool rather than a knave.
2. Every contest seemed to feature a scoundrel vs. a knave, a hack vs. an idiot, a doofus vs. a dolt.
3. "It used to be the lecturn bible but after we had it restored in 2000 we put it on display in a locked case in the Knave.
4. Such colorful propagandists –– some still poorly identified –– as "Martin Marprelate," "Pasquil Cavaliero of England" and "Cuthbert Curry–Knave" punctuated the Elizabethan literary scene.
5. Kewell claimed that the article accused him of being a fool, and implied he was a "knave" guilty of dishonourable conduct.