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English Dictionary: blackguard by the DICT Development Group
4 results for blackguard
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
blackguard
n
  1. someone who is morally reprehensible; "you dirty dog" [syn: cad, bounder, blackguard, dog, hound, heel]
v
  1. subject to laughter or ridicule; "The satirists ridiculed the plans for a new opera house"; "The students poked fun at the inexperienced teacher"; "His former students roasted the professor at his 60th birthday"
    Synonym(s): ridicule, roast, guy, blackguard, laugh at, jest at, rib, make fun, poke fun
  2. use foul or abusive language towards; "The actress abused the policeman who gave her a parking ticket"; "The angry mother shouted at the teacher"
    Synonym(s): abuse, clapperclaw, blackguard, shout
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Blackguard \Black"guard\, a.
      Scurrilous; abusive; low; worthless; vicious; as, blackguard
      language.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Blackguard \Black"guard\, n. [Black + guard.]
      1. The scullions and lower menials of a court, or of a
            nobleman's household, who, in a removal from one residence
            to another, had charge of the kitchen utensils, and being
            smutted by them, were jocularly called the [bd]black
            guard[b8]; also, the servants and hangers-on of an army.
            [Obs.]
  
                     A lousy slave, that . . . rode with the black guard
                     in the duke's carriage, 'mongst spits and dripping
                     pans.                                                --Webster
                                                                              (1612).
  
      2. The criminals and vagrants or vagabonds of a town or
            community, collectively. [Obs.]
  
      3. A person of stained or low character, esp. one who uses
            scurrilous language, or treats others with foul abuse; a
            scoundrel; a rough.
  
                     A man whose manners and sentiments are decidedly
                     below those of his class deserves to be called a
                     blackguard.                                       --Macaulay.
  
      4. A vagrant; a bootblack; a gamin. [Obs.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Blackguard \Black"guard`\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Blackguarded};
      p. pr. & vb. n. {Blackguarding}.]
      To revile or abuse in scurrilous language. --Southey.
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