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Meaning of 'blackguard' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Blackguard [ a.]
- Scurrilous; abusive; low; worthless; vicious; as, blackguard language.
2 . Blackguard [ 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.
- 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.
3 . Blackguard [ v. t.]
- To revile or abuse in scurrilous language.

Meaning of 'blackguard' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . blackguard [ n]
Meaning (1):
- someone who is morally reprehensible
Example in sentence:
  • you dirty dog
2 . blackguard [ v]
Meaning (2):
- subject to laughter or ridicule
Example in sentence:
  • His former students roasted the professor at his 60th birthday;
  • The satirists ridiculed the plans for a new opera house;
  • The students poked fun at the inexperienced teacher
Meaning (3):
- use foul or abusive language towards
Example in sentence:
  • The actress abused the policeman who gave her a parking ticket;
  • The angry mother shouted at the teacher

Nearby Words:

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