knave

名词 n.
中文释义
发音 nāv

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A boy; especially, a boy servant. archaic
  2. Any male servant; a menial. archaic
    — Many a duteous and knee-crooking knave that, doting on his own obsequious bondage, wears out his time, much like his master's ass, For naught but provender, and when he's old – cashier'd! Whip me such honest knaves.
  3. A tricky, deceitful fellow; a dishonest person. dated
    — I could plainly diſcover from whence one Family derives a long Chin; why a ſecond hath abounded with Knaves for two Generations, and Fools for two more; why a third happened to be crack-brained, and a fourth to be Sharpers.
  4. A playing card marked with the figure of a servant or a soldier.

词形变化

knaves plural

词汇关系

衍生词
beknave knave bairn knave of clubs knave of diamonds knave of hearts knave of spades knaveproof knavery knaveship knavess knavish

词源

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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