'Blackguard' definitions:
Definition of 'blackguard'
(from WordNet)
noun
Someone who is morally reprehensible; "you dirty dog" [syn: cad, bounder, blackguard, dog, hound, heel]
verb
Subject to laughter or ridicule; "The satirists ridiculed the plans for a new opera house"; "The students poked fun at the inexperienced teacher"; "His former students roasted the professor at his 60th birthday" [syn: ridicule, roast, guy, blackguard, laugh at, jest at, rib, make fun, poke fun]
verb
Use foul or abusive language towards; "The actress abused the policeman who gave her a parking ticket"; "The angry mother shouted at the teacher" [syn: abuse, clapperclaw, blackguard, shout]
Definition of 'Blackguard'
From: GCIDE
- Blackguard \Black"guard\, a. Scurrilous; abusive; low; worthless; vicious; as, blackguard language. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Blackguard'
From: GCIDE
- Blackguard \Black"guard\ (bl[a^]g"g[aum]rd), n. [Black + guard.]
- 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. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- A lousy slave, that . . . rode with the black guard in the duke's carriage, 'mongst spits and dripping pans. --Webster (1612). [1913 Webster]
- 2. The criminals and vagrants or vagabonds of a town or community, collectively. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- 3. A person of stained or low character, esp. one who uses scurrilous language, or treats others with foul abuse; a scoundrel; a rough. [1913 Webster]
- A man whose manners and sentiments are decidedly below those of his class deserves to be called a blackguard. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- 4. A vagrant; a bootblack; a gamin. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Blackguard'
From: GCIDE
- Blackguard \Black"guard`\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blackguarded; p. pr. & vb. n. Blackguarding.] To revile or abuse in scurrilous language. --Southey. [1913 Webster]