Well, I suppose if you go far back enough, it would be spelled "villeyn" or "villein," but I've had the good luck to hear a man use it in ordinary conversation. He was Danny Spooner, the renowned traditional singer. Right now he lives in Australia, but he grew up in London and environs, and when I last met him we had a great conversation about Henry Mayhew's work of social research London Labor and the London Poor. (This is compelling reading and contains masses of interviews with people in low-grade jobs in Victorian London--muck-gatherers for a tannery, prostitutes, petty thieves and pickpockets, beggars, crossing-sweepers.) I distinctly remember Danny saying something to the effect that nobody in Mayhew's day would have understood why Mayhew wanted to interview a bunch of villains. As in "grubby pickpocket," not as in "arch-criminal."

/language buff