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4 years ago
blackguard – Blackguard is from black + guard. The term originally referred
to the lowest kitchen servants of a court or of a nobleman’s
household. They had charge of pots and pans and kitchen other
utensils, and rode in wagons conveying these during journeys
from one residence to another. Being dirtied by this task,
they were jocularly called the “black guard.”
blackguard \BLAG-uhrd\, noun:
1. A rude or unscrupulous person; a scoundrel.
2. A person who uses foul or abusive language.
adjective:
Scurrilous; abusive; low; worthless; vicious; as, “blackguard
language.”
transitive verb:
To revile or abuse in scurrilous language.
3/28/05
“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it. ”
– Mark Twain
