varlet
- n a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel
- n in medieval times a youth acting as a knight's attendant as the first stage in training for knighthood
- Equally adept at Shakespeare, the kids cheerily greeted each other with "What ho, varlet?" and "How now, spirit! Whither wander you?" The force behind all this is 23-year-old .
- Her second, an insolvent playboy, blandly accepts her money, calls himself her gigolo, sneers over her with her daughter Veda as a working woman, a moneygrubber, a "varlet.
- And, by Kitchener, the varlet was.