Word
Blackguard
How many syllables?
2 Syllables
How it's divided?
black-guard
Definition
- n. - 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.
- n. - The criminals and vagrants or vagabonds of a town or
community, collectively.
- n. - A person of stained or low character, esp. one who uses
scurrilous language, or treats others with foul abuse; a scoundrel; a
rough.
- n. - A vagrant; a bootblack; a gamin.
- v. t. - To revile or abuse in scurrilous language.
- a. - Scurrilous; abusive; low; worthless; vicious; as,
blackguard language.
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