meaning of blackguard
1. 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. 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.
5. To revile or abuse in scurrilous language.
6. Scurrilous; abusive; low; worthless; vicious; as, blackguard language.
7. someone who is morally reprehensible; "you dirty
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Related Words
blackguard | blackguarded | blackguarding | blackguardism | blackguardly |
