vaurien

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vaurien

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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.

noun vauriens

archaic A 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.”

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@misc{vaurien_2026,
  title = {vaurien},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/vaurien},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}