Thesaurus: blackguard

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1. 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.
2. n. The criminals and vagrants or vagabonds of a town or community, collectively.
3. n. A person of stained or low character, esp. one who uses scurrilous language, or treats others with foul abuse; a scoundrel; a rough.
4. n. A vagrant; a bootblack; a gamin.
5. v. t. To revile or abuse in scurrilous language.
6. a. Scurrilous; abusive; low; worthless; vicious; as, blackguard language.
7. n. someone who is morally reprehensible
8. v. subject to laughter or ridicule
9. v. use foul or abusive language towards
10. To revile or abuse in scurrilous language. Southey.
11. n:100 n someone who is morally reprehensible v subject to laughter or ridicule v use foul or abusive language towards