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Gulliver’s Travels vocabulary
11 archaic vocabulary words
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varlet
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synonyms: slavey, knave, blackguard, cur, blighter, villiago, human paraquat ???
tags: [archaic] [obsolete]
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Definition:1. an attendant or servant [obsolete]2. an unprincipled rascal [archaic]
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Hyacinth: [drunk] Oh! Why? Why is he tying me up? Why is this churl tying me up? I'm being held a prisoner your lordship! A white woman wearing a hat, what is the world coming to? Unhand me, varlet!
BBC. Keeping Up Appearances, season 5: The Country Estate Sale (1995)
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“You're welcome for nothing, you varlet, I wouldn't waste a killing on the likes of you.”
Maya Angelou. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969)
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I roamed the place in search of the varlet for the space of half an hour, and, after having drawn all his familiar haunts, found him at length leaning over the sea wall near the church, gazing thoughtfully into the waters below.
P. G. Wodehouse. Love Among the Chickens A Story of the Haps and Mishaps on an English Chicken Farm (1909)
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a little contemptible varlet, without the least title to birth, person, wit, or common sense, shall presume to look with importance, and put himself upon a foot with the greatest persons of the kingdom.
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (17
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