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Blackguard
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- 1 The lowest servant in a household charged with pots, pans, and other kitchen equipment. historical
- 2 someone who is morally reprehensible wordnet
- 3 An unprincipled, contemptible person; an untrustworthy person. dated
"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."
- 4 A man who uses foul language in front of a woman (typically a woman of high standing). archaic
- 1 To revile or abuse in scurrilous language. transitive
"Persons who passed each other in boats upon the Thames used to blackguard each other, in a trial of wit"
- 2 use foul or abusive language towards wordnet
- 3 To act like a blackguard; to be a scoundrel. intransitive
- 4 subject to laughter or ridicule wordnet
Etymology
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.
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.
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