blackguard

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. Source: opted

2. n. The criminals and vagrants or vagabonds of a town or community, collectively. Source: opted

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. Source: opted

4. n. A vagrant; a bootblack; a gamin. Source: opted

5. v. t. To revile or abuse in scurrilous language. Source: opted

6. a. Scurrilous; abusive; low; worthless; vicious; as, blackguard language. Source: opted

7. n. someone who is morally reprehensible Source: wordnet

8. v. subject to laughter or ridicule Source: wordnet

9. v. use foul or abusive language towards Source: wordnet

10. 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.] A lousy slave, that . . . rode with the black guard in the duke's carriage, 'mongst spits and dripping pans. Webster (1612). 2. The criminals and vagrants or vagabonds of a town or community, collectively. [Obs.] 3. A person of stained or low character, esp. one who uses scurrilous language, or treats others with foul abuse; a scoundrel; a rough. A man whose manners and sentiments are decidedly below those of his class deserves to be called a blackguard. Macaulay. 4. A vagrant; a bootblack; a gamin. [Obs.] To revile or abuse in scurrilous language. Southey. Scurrilous; abusive; low; worthless; vicious; as, blackguard language. Source: webster

11. To revile or abuse in scurrilous language. Southey. Source: adambom

12. n:100 n someone who is morally reprehensible v subject to laughter or ridicule v use foul or abusive language towards Source: ecdict

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