varlet

English Thesaurus

1. in medieval times a youth acting as a knight's attendant as the first stage in training for knighthood (noun.person)

hypernym	:	attendant, attender, tender,
definition	:	someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another (noun.person)

2. a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel (noun.person)

hypernym	:	scoundrel, villain,
definition	:	a wicked or evil person; someone who does evil deliberately (noun.person)

derivation	:	blackguardly, rascally, roguish, scoundrelly,
definition	:	lacking principles or scruples (adj.all)

derivation	:	blackguardly, rascally, roguish, scoundrelly,
definition	:	lacking principles or scruples (adj.all)