BLACKGUARD

cad, bounder, blackguard, dog, hound, heel

(noun) someone who is morally reprehensible; “you dirty dog”

abuse, clapperclaw, blackguard, shout

(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”

ridicule, roast, guy, blackguard, laugh at, jest at, rib, make fun, poke fun

(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”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

blackguard (plural blackguards)

(old-fashioned, usually used only of men) A scoundrel; an unprincipled contemptible person; an untrustworthy person.

(archaic) A man who uses foul language in front of a woman, typically a woman of high standing in society.

Verb

blackguard (third-person singular simple present blackguards, present participle blackguarding, simple past and past participle blackguarded)

(transitive) To revile or abuse in scurrilous language.

(intransitive) To act like a blackguard; to be a scoundrel.

Source: Wiktionary

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Black"guard, n. Etym: [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.] 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.]

Black"guard`, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blackguarded; p. pr. & vb. n. Blackguarding.]

Definition: To revile or abuse in scurrilous language. Southey.

Black"guard, a.

Definition: Scurrilous; abusive; low; worthless; vicious; as, blackguard language.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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