knave
noun /neɪv/
/neɪv/
- (old-fashioned) (in a pack of cards) a jack (= a card with a picture of a young man on it, normally worth more than a ten and less than a queen)
- the knave of clubs
- (old use) a dishonest man or boy
Word OriginOld English cnafa ‘boy, servant’, of West Germanic origin; related to German Knabe ‘boy’.