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vaurien

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
vau-rien
IPA
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A good-for-nothing; a scoundrel.

Archaic

Example Sentences

Etymology

Borrowed from French vaurien; used by Isaac D'Israeli for the name of the eponymous character of his 1797 novel Vaurien: or Sketches of the Times.

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Usage

Inflected Forms

vauriens (plural)

Questions

What does vaurien mean?
A good-for-nothing; a scoundrel.
Where does vaurien come from?
It is traced to French.

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