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 Translation for 'knave' from English to Icelandic
NOUN   a knave | knaves
SYNO jack | knave | rapscallion | ...
leikir
gosi {k} [í spilum]
knave
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Translation for 'knave' from English to Icelandic

knave
gosi {k} [í spilum]leikir
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Usage Examples English
  • In this case, John is a knave and Bill is a knight.
  • Knabe is a German word meaning "boy", cognate with the English word "knave".
  • Should a cheater wish to announce the knave and ace of hearts, he would glance at the stake and then to the opposite side, whilst keeping his mouth slightly open.
  • ... / "panoûrgos" meaning "knave, rogue") is one of the principal characters in "Gargantua and Pantagruel", a series of five novels by François Rabelais.
  • Sir Andrew does not appear in the play after the rejection of his assistance by a drunken Sir Toby: "Will you help? An ass-head and a coxcomb and a knave, a thin-faced knave, a gull?".

  • While one contemporary account blandly concluded: "Organizers regard the title Knave of Diamonds as a symbol of young enthusiasm and passion, 'for the knave implies youth and the suit of diamonds represents seething blood,'" the public itself understood the symbolism to trend in a different direction: "unaccustomed to such novel titles," they assumed the show to be "a gambling house or brothel," and "in no way an art exhibition."
  • However, Voltaire went on to endorse the "Profession of Faith" section and called it "fifty good pages... it is regrettable that they should have been written by... such a knave".
  • He wrote that Giacomo Messedaglia was "a rascal and a knave ... a crook to the end", while Romolo Gessi was "capable of the worst and basest actions".
  • In French tradition, "La Hire" is used as a nickname for the knave of hearts.
  • In January 1511, Hall was sent to the Fleet for stating that Catherine of Aragon, then queen, the first wife of Henry VIII, had been ‘delivered of a knave child’.

  • These include the removal of the Ace of trumps rule, the use of jokers (usually valued just below the jack (knave) of trumps), the bell rule (where a successful call of 30 yields 60 points) and various reneging variations.
  • On , the text contains a marginal note, "Fool and knave, leave the old reading and do not change it!" – " [...] " which may suggest unauthorised correcting was a recognized problem in scriptoriums.
  • Knights do not appear in German or Swiss playing cards; their place being occupied by an upper knave card called the Ober.
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