DASTARD

dastard

(noun) a despicable coward

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

dastard (plural dastards)

A malicious coward; a dishonorable sneak.

Adjective

dastard (comparative more dastard, superlative most dastard)

Meanly shrinking from danger, cowardly, dastardly.

Verb

dastard (third-person singular simple present dastards, present participle dastarding, simple past and past participle dastarded)

To dastardize.

Source: Wiktionary


Das"tard, n. Etym: [Prob. from Icel. dæstr exhausted. breathless, p. p. of dæsa to groan, lose one's breath; cf. dasask to become exhausted, and E. daze.]

Definition: One who meanly shrinks from danger; an arrant coward; a poltroon. You are all recreants and dashtards, and delight to live in slavery to the nobility. Shak.

Das"tard, a.

Definition: Meanly shrinking from danger; cowardly; dastardly. "Their dastard souls." Addison.

Das"tard, v. t.

Definition: To dastardize. [R.] Dryden.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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