Reverse Dictionary: KNAVE

ADJECTIVES
► ILL-CONTRICKED knavish → Bk1905 Sc.
► LIMMER knavish, scoundrelly, roguish, rascally → 1500-20 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► NICKERY knavish → 1890 Sc.
► PALLIARD ► PALLYARD knavish, dissolute → 1484 obs.
► RAPSCALLION roguish, rascally, knavish → 1711
► RAPSCALLIONLY rascally, roguish, knavish → 1832
► RASCOTLY rascally, knavish → 1857 Eng. dial.
► SLIVERLY cunning, crafty, deceitful, knavish, artful → 1674 Eng. dial.

NOUNS
► COQUINERY roguery, knavery → 1430 obs.
► PALLIARDRY roguery, knavery; lechery, fornication → 1513 obs.
► PALLIARDY roguery, knavery; lechery, fornication → c1560 obs.
► RASCALMENT roguery, knavery, rascalry → 1832
► RASCALRY roguery, knavery → 1868
► KNAVIGATION a knavish invention or relation → 1613 jocular usage, obs.

NOUNS – PERSON
► BALATRON ► BALATROON ► BALLATRON a babbling, prating fellow; a vain talking fellow; a jester, a buffoon; a rascally base knave, a thief; a  contemptible fellow → 1623 obs.
► BESONIAN ► BEZONIAN as a term of contempt: a needy beggar, a poor wretch; a base fellow, a mean, low person; a knave,  a rascal, a scoundrel → 1592 obs.
► BISOGNIO ► BISOGNO a term of contempt; a needy beggar, a base fellow, a knave, a rascal → 1612 obs.
► CATAIAN a rogue, a scoundrel, a rascal, a knave, a blackguard; a sharper → 1598 obs.
► COISTRIL ► CUSTREL a worthless or contemptible person; a knave, a rogue; later, a cowardly or timorous person; a foolish or inexperienced youth → 1570 arch.
► CUST a term of contempt or abuse; a knave, a rogue → 1535 Sc. obs.
► CUSTRON an assistant to a chef or cook; a kitchen servant, a scullion; also, a term of abuse, a man of low birth or status; a knave, a rogue, a scoundrel → c1400 arch.
► GETLING a child, a brat; also, a fellow, somewhat depreciative, as a knave, a vagabond  → c1700 Sc.
► GLUTTON a general term of reproach or contempt; a vile wretch; a knave, rascal, filthy fellow → c1300 obs.
► HALLAN-SHAKER ► HELLENSHAKER a beggar who stands shaking the ‘hallan’; a vagabond, a sturdy beggar; a knave, a rascal → 1508 Sc. 
► HARLOT a vagabond, a vagrant; a beggar, a rogue, a rascal, a villain, a low fellow, a knave → a1225 obs.
► JACK a man of the common people; a lad, a fellow; a chap; a low-bred or ill-mannered fellow; a knave → 1548 obs.
► LADRONE a vague term of reproach; a rogue, rascal, blackguard; a lazy knave → a1557 Sc.
► LIMMER a rogue, a rascal, a knave, a scoundrel → 1456 obs. exc. Sc. & N. Eng. dial. obs.
► OBLOQUIUM a malapert or impudent knave → Bk1869
► PALLART a professional beggar or vagabond (who sleeps on the straw in barns and outhouses); hence, a low or dissolute knave; a lewd fellow, a lecher, a debauchee → 1484 obs.
► PALLIARD ► PALLYARD a professional beggar or vagabond (who sleeps on the straw in barns and outhouses); hence, a low or dissolute knave; a lewd fellow, a lecher, a debauchee → 1484 obs.
► RABSCALLION a rascal, a knave, a rogue; a vagabond, a scamp; a worthless wretch → 1699
► RAMPALLION  a ruffian, a villain, a scoundrel, a rogue, a knave, a rascal → 1593 obs.
– a female rampallion, knave, rogue, rascal → 1602 obs.
► RASCALLION a low, mean or worthless wretch or rascal; a rogue, a knave → 1649
► RASCOT ► RASKELT ► RASKOT a rascal, a knave → 1790 Eng. dial.
► SCANDERBEG a rogue, a rascal, a knave → a1635 obs.
► SMY a knave, a rascal → 1507 Sc. obs.
► TITIVIL a term of reproach; a bad or vile character; a scoundrel, villain; a worthless knave → c1420 obs.
► TITIVILLER a bad or vile character, a scoundrel, a rogue, a rascal, a knave, a villain → 1500 obs.
► TUTIVILLER a wicked, destructive, or difficult person, a scoundrel, a rogue, a knave; a person who gossips, spreads rumours, or tells tales, a tattler → 1568 obs., derogatory
► TUTIVILLUS a wicked, destructive, or difficult person; a scoundrel, a knave → 1498 obs.
► VARLET a person of a low, mean, or knavish disposition; a have, a rogue, a rascal → 1555
► WAGHALTER one who is likely to swing in a halter; a ‘gallows-bird’ ; a rogue, knave, or rascal worthy of hanging→ 1570 obs.
► WAG-WITH one who is likely to swing in a halter; a ‘gallows-bird’; a rogue, knave, or rascal worthy of hanging  → 1611 obs.

VERBS
► PLAY THE JACK to play the rogue or knave; to do a mean trick → 1609 obs.