vaurien

• The Paris vaurien is worth less than any man on earth, and these were choice specimens from the gutter We were wasting our time in such a galley, and as I thus reflected a note was slipped into my hand Follow me, but not at once." —  Dross
• "And he was a vaurien, if you like--no more monsieur's sort than Lucas himself. —  Helmet of Navarre
• At this reminder she seemed to rouse herself, and repeated the same words, adding, "I will not have a rascal (vaurien) to succeed me." —  A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 5
• GÉNÉREUX À BON MARCH Un jeune vaurien, qui espérait hériter un jour de son oncle, voulait le sonder un peu pour savoir les chances qu'il courait de réaliser son ambition. —  French Conversation and Composition
• 'The fool hath said in his heart'--is in English: "the worthless fellow ('vaurien') hath taken it into his head," &c Ib. —  Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4.

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