blackguard
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blackguard
- /ˈblæɡəd/ UK
- /ˈblæɡɚd/ US
Rhymes with -æɡə(ɹ)d
Where it comes from
From black + guard, thought to have referred originally to the scullions and lower menials of a court, or of a nobleman's household, who wore black liveries or blacked shoes and boots, or were often stained with soot.
noun blackguards · blaggard
- The lowest servant in a household charged with pots, pans, and other kitchen equipment.
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An unprincipled, contemptible person; an untrustworthy person.
1830, Thomas Macaulay, Review of Robert Southey's edition of Pilgrim's Progress, in the Edinburgh Review
A man whose manners and sentiments are decidedly below those of his class deserves to be called a blackguard.
Similar: scoundrel, assbag, assbreath, assbucket, asschunk, asscunt, assface, assfag, assfaggot, assfuck, assfucker, asshat
- A man who uses foul language in front of a woman (typically a woman of high standing).
verb blackguards · blackguarding · blackguarded · blaggard
- To revile or abuse in scurrilous language. Persons who passed each other in boats upon the Thames used to blackguard each other, in a trial of wit
- To act like a blackguard; to be a scoundrel.
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