Meanings
plural vauriens
- archaicA good-for-nothing; a scoundrel.
Quarantine, a disagreeable thing at all times, was rendered perfectly disgusting by the manner in which the spoglia was conducted, the vermin, and the disobliging conduct of the director, who was a regular “vaurien.”
1841, William Jesse, Notes of a Half-pay in Search of Health, Volume 1, James Madden & Co., page 62
Origin
- Frenchvaurien
- Englishvaurien
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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