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BLACKGUARDING
Verb
blackguarding
present participle of blackguard
Source: Wiktionary
BLACKGUARD
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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