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blackguard

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1. blackguard - Noun

2. blackguard - Adjective

3. blackguard - Verb

Meaning

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 "black guard"; also, the servants and hangers-on of an army.

The criminals and vagrants or vagabonds of a town or community, collectively.

A person of stained or low character, esp. one who uses scurrilous language, or treats others with foul abuse; a scoundrel; a rough.

A vagrant; a bootblack; a gamin.

To revile or abuse in scurrilous language.

Scurrilous; abusive; low; worthless; vicious; as, blackguard language.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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