English Explanatory Dictionary

vaurien

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A good-for-nothing; a scoundrel.

Word forms

vaurien vauriens

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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