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knave child - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Noun · male offspring; son · boy, lad, male child · baby, infant. Descendants. edit. English: knave-child (archaic). References. edit. “knāve-chīld ...
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knave-child, n. meanings, etymology and more
There is one meaning in OED's entry for the noun knave-child. See 'Meaning & use' for definition, usage, and quotation evidence. This word is now obsolete.
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KNAVE Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
1. a tricky deceitful fellow 2. jack sense 2a 3. archaic a : a boy servant b : a male servant c : a man of humble birth or position.
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knave-child
† ˈknave-child Obs. A male child.c 1175 Lamb. Hom. 77 Þu scald..bare Knaue child. c 1275 Lay. 15526 Ȝef man funde..eny cnaue child, þat neuere fader nadde. c 1320 Sir Beues (MS. A) 3714 Fond he þer noþer ȝong ne elder, Boute twei heþene knaue childer. c 1440 Gesta Rom. i. lxxii. 390 (Add. MS.) With ...
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knave child | Rabbitique - The Multilingual Etymology Dictionary
male offspring; son; boy, lad, male child; baby, infant. Etymology. Affix from Middle English knave (servant, boy) + Middle English child. Origin. Middle ...
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TIL Until the late 1400s the word 'girl' just meant a child of either sex ...
If you had to differentiate between them, male children were referred to as 'knave girls' and females were 'gay girls'. Equally, a boy could be ...
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Evelyn Boucher
Selected filmography
The Faith of a Child (1915)
Tom Brown's Schooldays (1916)
The Man Who Bought London (1916)
Diana and Destiny (1916)
If Thou Wert Blind (1917)
The Happy Warrior (1917)
Love's Old Sweet Song (1917)
The Man Who Forgot (1919)
The Knave of Hearts (1919)
The Warrior Strain (1919)
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Knave - Etymology, Origin & Meaning
But through Middle English it kept also its non-pejorative meaning, as in knave-child (Scottish knave-bairn) "male child." In playing cards, "the lowest ...
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Knave - Wikipedia
Knave may refer to: A rogue (vagrant), a rascal, deceitful fellow, a dishonest man; Knave (playing card), another name for the jack in card games ...
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History fact of the day... Until the late 15th century the word 'girl ...
Until the late 15th century the word 'girl' simply means a child of either sex. Boys, where they had to be differentiated, were referred to as 'knave girls'.
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It's a fact - all boys were once called girls and all girls were called gay!
Equally a boy could be a 'knave child' and a girl a 'maiden child'. The term 'boy' was reserved for servants or 'churls', the meaning 'young ...
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knape
knape Obs. exc. dial. Forms: 1 cnapa, 2–3 cnape, 3–6 (8 dial.) knape, 6 Sc. knaip, 7 (9 dial.) knap. [OE. cnapa = OFris. knapa, ODu. knapo (MDu. knape, Du. knaap), MLG. (hence MHG.) knape, ON. knapi (ODa. and OSw. knape):—OTeut. *knapon-. The ulterior etym. and relation to OE. cnafa, knave, are unce...
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Robert Cromek
early years of the nineteenth century Cromek had supported Blake, and had engraved Blake's design for Benjamin Heath Malkin's A Father's Memoirs of his Child A petty sneaking knave I knew--
"O! Mr. Cromek, how do ye do?"
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Sally Carman
She appeared in the second series of the BBC 1 drama Prisoners' Wives, starting 14 March 2013, as Kim Haines, the wife of a man falsely accused of child September 2014, she played the role of Mrs Casper, the mother of kestrel lover Billy, in Kes, a stage adaptation of Barry Hines’ book, A Kestrel for a Knave
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Jane Pope
As a child Pope and her brother were recruited as child extras for a Lilliputian production for Garrick in 1756. 1796)
Ellen in A Cure for the Heart Ache by Thomas Morton (1797)
Lady Manfred in The Last of the Family by Richard Cumberland (1797)
Lady Ferment in Knave
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