Blackguard
Definition of Blackguard
Black´guard` Pronunciation: blăg´gärd n. | 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 "black guard"; also, the servants and hangers-on of an army. | | 2. | The criminals and vagrants or vagabonds of a town or community, collectively. | | 3. | A person of stained or low character, esp. one who uses scurrilous language, or treats others with foul abuse; a scoundrel; a rough. | | 4. | A vagrant; a bootblack; a gamin. | v. t. | 1. | To revile or abuse in scurrilous language. | a. | 1. | Scurrilous; abusive; low; worthless; vicious; as, blackguard language. |
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