Servant vs Varlet - What's the difference?
servant | varlet |
One who is hired to perform regular household or other duties, and receives compensation. As opposed to a slave.
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*:As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish, but I would not go out of my way to protest against it. My servant is, so far as I am concerned, welcome to as many votes as he can get. I would very gladly make mine over to him if I could.
One who serves another, providing help in some manner.
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(obsolete) A servant or attendant.
* 1843 , '', book 2, ch. 8, ''The Electon
(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:
* 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.
In obsolete terms the difference between servant and varlet
is that servant is to subject while varlet is a servant or attendant.As a verb servant
is to subject.servant
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Alternative forms
* servaunt (obsolete) * (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* assigned servant * civil servant * manservant * maidservant * public servant * servantlyStatistics
*Anagrams
* ----varlet
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Noun
(en noun)- 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?
- 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.