Definition of blackguard Blackguard
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We found 12 definitions of blackguard from 4 different sources.
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What does blackguard mean?
WordNet
Noun |
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| blackguard - someone who is morally reprehensible; "you dirty dog" | ||
| cad, bounder, dog, hound, heel | ||
| scoundrel, villain a wicked or evil person; someone who does evil deliberately | ||
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| blackguard - subject to laughter or ridicule; "The satirists ridiculed the plans for a new opera house"; "The students poked fun at the inexperienced teacher"; "His former students roasted the professor at his 60th birthday" | ||
| ridicule, roast, guy, laugh at, jest at, rib, make fun, poke fun | ||
| bemock, mock treat with contempt; "The new constitution mocks all democratic principles" | ||
| tease ruffle (one's hair) by combing the ends towards the scalp, for a full effect | ||
| lampoon, satirise, satirize ridicule with satire; "The writer satirized the politician's proposal" | ||
| debunk, expose expose while ridiculing; especially of pretentious or false claims and ideas; "The physicist debunked the psychic's claims" | ||
| stultify cause to appear foolish; "He stultified himself by contradicting himself and being inconsistent" | ||
| blackguard - use foul or abusive language towards; "The actress abused the policeman who gave her a parking ticket"; "The angry mother shouted at the teacher" | ||
| abuse, clapperclaw, shout | ||
| lash out, assail, assault, snipe, attack, round attack someone physically or emotionally; "The mugger assaulted the woman"; "Nightmares assailed him regularly" | ||
| slang abuse with coarse language | ||
| revile, vilify, vituperate, rail spread negative information about; "The Nazi propaganda vilified the Jews" | ||
| curse utter obscenities or profanities; "The drunken men were cursing loudly in the street" | ||
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Wiktionary 
- blackguard (Noun)
A scoundrel; an unprincipled contemptible person; an untrustworthy person. - blackguard (Verb)
To revile or abuse in scurrilous language.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- blackguard (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. - blackguard (n.)
The criminals and vagrants or vagabonds of a town or community, collectively. - blackguard (n.)
A person of stained or low character, esp. one who uses scurrilous language, or treats others with foul abuse; a scoundrel; a rough. - blackguard (n.)
A vagrant; a bootblack; a gamin. - blackguard (v. t.)
To revile or abuse in scurrilous language. - blackguard (a.)
Scurrilous; abusive; low; worthless; vicious; as, blackguard language.
Part of speech
🔤- blackguard, verb, present, 1st person singular of blackguard (infinitive).
- blackguard, verb (infinitive).
- blackguard, noun, singular of blackguards.
