Blackguard Synonyms & Definitions

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• BlackguardDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (n.) The scullions and lower menials of a court, or of a noblemans 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.
2. (n.) The criminals and vagrants or vagabonds of a town or community, collectively.
3. (n.) A vagrant; a bootblack; a gamin.
4. (n.) A person of stained or low character, esp. one who uses scurrilous language, or treats others with foul abuse; a scoundrel; a rough.
5. (v. t.) To revile or abuse in scurrilous language.
6. (a.) Scurrilous; abusive; low; worthless; vicious; as, blackguard language.

• BlackguardismDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (n.) The conduct or language of a blackguard; ruffianism.

• BlackguardedDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (imp. & p. p.) of Blackguard

• BlackguardingDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Blackguard