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Cur vs Varlet - What's the difference?

cur | varlet | Synonyms |

Cur is a synonym of varlet.


As nouns the difference between cur and varlet

is that cur is heart while varlet is (obsolete) a servant or attendant.

cur

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (archaic) A mongrel or inferior dog.
  • * 1919 ,
    • "You have no more spirit than a mongrel cur . You lie down on the ground and ask people to trample on you."
  • (archaic) A detestable person.

    • See also

    * bitsa, bitser * mongrel * mutt

    Anagrams

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    varlet

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A servant or attendant.
  • * 1843 , '', book 2, ch. 8, ''The Electon
    • The Winchester Manorhouse has fled bodily, like a Dream of the old Night (...) . House and people, royal and episcopal, lords and varlets , where are they?
  • (historical) Specifically, a youth acting as a knight's attendant at the beginning of his training for knighthood.
  • (archaic) A rogue or scoundrel.
  • * 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 410:
    • My lady to be called a nasty Scotch wh–re by such a varlet !—To be sure I wish I had knocked his brains out with the punchbowl.
  • * 1886 , , The Bostonians .
  • *:He was false, cunning, vulgar, ignoble; the cheapest kind of human product.... The white, puffy mother, with the high forehead, in the corner there, looked more like a lady; but if she were one, it was all the more shame to her to have mated with such a varlet , Ransom said to himself, making use, as he did generally, of terms of opprobrium extracted from the older English literature.
  • (obsolete, cards) The jack.

    • Anagrams

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