English
knavess
From knave + -ess.
Formed from knave + -ess
Proto-West Germanic *knappō ‘boy’
Old English cnafa ‘child, boy, youth’
Middle English knave ‘son, male child (offspring)’
English knave
Today it means
noun A knavish woman.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / knavess