Varlet vs Rascal - What's the difference?
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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.
A dishonest person; a rogue; a scoundrel; a trickster.
A playfully mischievous person or creature; a troublemaker.
A member of a criminal gang in Papua New Guinea.
Varlet is a related term of rascal.
As a noun varlet
is (obsolete) a servant or attendant.As a proper noun rascal is
.varlet
English
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.
Anagrams
* ----rascal
English
Noun
(en noun)- That little rascal bit me!
- If you have deer in the area, you may have to put a fence around your garden to keep the rascals out.