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Grammar : Noun
Spell : blag-ahrd, -erd, blak-gahrd
Phonetic Transcription : ˈblæg ɑrd, -ərd, ˈblækˌgɑrd

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Définition of blackguard

Origin :
  • 1530s, scullion, kitchen knave. Perhaps once an actual military or guard unit; more likely originally a mock-military reference to scullions and kitchen-knaves of noble households, of black-liveried personal guards, and of shoeblacks. By 1736, sense had emerged of "one of the criminal class." Hence the adjectival use (1784), "of low or worthless character."
  • noun scoundrel
Example sentences :
  • He meets me at the station, and wants me to go straight home and blackguard Betty.
  • Extract from : « The Incomplete Amorist » by E. Nesbit
  • Then you have to choose between being unhappy or being a blackguard.
  • Extract from : « The Incomplete Amorist » by E. Nesbit
  • Blackguard is a harsh word; but what other will express the idea?
  • Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 9 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth
  • He had entered the shop at eight o'clock that morning a blackguard as well as a vagabond.
  • Extract from : « Henry Dunbar » by M. E. Braddon
  • "We shall have to get rid of the blackguard at any price," said Pierre in a gloomy tone.
  • Extract from : « The Fortune of the Rougons » by Emile Zola
  • He declared that those "blackguard vegetables" were wild, mad, sublime!
  • Extract from : « The Fat and the Thin » by Emile Zola
  • I didn't think I had a blackguard for a son, who was a fool into the bargain.
  • Extract from : « The Eldest Son (Second Series Plays) » by John Galsworthy
  • But the blackguard was—was—well, he was not and never had been.
  • Extract from : « Kent Knowles: Quahaug » by Joseph C. Lincoln
  • He'll blackguard you mortal, and the Dempster himself is past it.
  • Extract from : « The Manxman » by Hall Caine
  • The provost's men are beating the country for the blackguard.
  • Extract from : « The Snare » by Rafael Sabatini

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