Definition of Blackguard
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(n.) 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.
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(n.) The criminals and vagrants or vagabonds of a town or community, collectively.
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(n.) A person of stained or low character, esp. one who uses scurrilous language, or treats others with foul abuse; a scoundrel; a rough.
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(n.) A vagrant; a bootblack; a gamin.
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(v. t.) To revile or abuse in scurrilous language.
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(a.) Scurrilous; abusive; low; worthless; vicious; as, blackguard language.
Antonyms of Blackguard
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Homophones of Blackguard
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