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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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