Dastard

Definition: Dastard

Dastard

Adjective

1. Treacherously cowardly; "the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on...December 7th"- F.D. Roosevelt.

Noun

1. A malicious coward.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "dastard" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references)

dastard

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Dastard

Cowardice

Dastard, dastardly; base, craven, sneaking, dunghill, recreant; unwarlike, unsoldier-like.

Coward, poltroon, dastard, sneak, recreant; dunghill cock; coistril, milksop, white liver, lily liver, nidget, one that cannot say " bo" to a goose; slink; Bob Acres, Jerry Sneak.

Crosswords: Dastard

Books

• The Dastard (reference)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expression using "dastard": dastard plover. Additional references.

Albanian

poshtëri (baseness), frikacak (chicken heart, chicken hearted, coward, cowardly, Craven, dastardly, faint-heart, faint-hearted, funk, milk-livered, poltroon, pusillanimous, recreant, scary, sneak, sneaking, white livered, yellow, yellowbellied, yellow-livered). (various references)

Arabic 

‏الجبان (coward, paver, recreant, sheep). (various references)

Bulgarian 

страхливец (chicken, chicken-liver, coward, faintheart, funk, yellow belly, yellow dog), поразеник (scamp), подлец (bastard, blackguard, caitiff, creep, hangdog, ratface, recreant, reprobate, scoundrel, skunk, sneak, sneaker, snot, twerp, villain, wretch, yellow dog). (various references)

Finnish

raukka (coward, poor, poor creature, poor fellow, poor thing). (various references)

Greek 

άνανδροσ (coward, cowardly, Craven, poltroon, recreant, unmanly), θρασύδειλοσ (bully, scaramouch). (various references)

Hungarian

hitvány féreg (worm, worm of a man). (various references)

Indonesian

takut (afraid, apprehensive, dread, scary), pengecut (abject, coward, faint, faint-hearted, poltroon, sneak, unmanly, white-livered), penakut (chicken, coward, funk). (various references)

Italian

codardo (coward, cowardly, Craven, funk, lily livered, recreant, weakling). (various references)

Pig Latin

astardday.(various references)

Portuguese

infame (disgraceful, ignominious, infamous, scandal, scandalous, shameful, villainous), covarde (caitiff, chicken-hearted, coward, cowardly, craven, dastardly, faint-hearted, funk, funky, lily-livered, milk-livered, milksop, pusillanimous, recreant, scaramouch, slag, sneaking, white-livered, yellow-livered). (various references)

Romanian

mişel (caitiff, cowardly, rascal, rascally, recreant, sneaking, villain), laş (base-spirited, chicken hearted, coward, cowardly, Craven, cur, dastardly, faint-hearted, funk, hen-hearted, invertebrate, lily livered, milk-livered, mollycoddle, pigeon-hearted, poltroon, recreant, sneak, sneaky, unmanly, white livered, yellow), fricos (apprehensive, caitiff, chicken hearted, coward, cowardly, Craven, cur, eerie, eery, faint-hearted, fearful, funky, hare-hearted, hen-hearted, lily livered, milk-livered, mollycoddle, Patsi, pigeon-hearted, piker, poltroon, poor spirited, pusillanimous, shy, spiritless, timid, timorous, white livered, yellow). (various references)

Russian 

трус (caitiff, capon, chicken, chicken-liver, coward, faintheart, faint-heart, funk, milksop, pikelet, piker, poltroon, rat, recreant, yellow dog), подлец (blackguard, coyote, dog, mean-spirited fellow, pimp, rascal, reprobate, scoundrel, whoreson). (various references)

Scottish

spìocair (mean fellow). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

kukavica (chicken-liver, coward, cuckoo, faintheart, gowk, recreant), hulja (blackguard, bugger, scamp, spalpeen). (various references)

Spanish

persona asquerosa (cringing). (various references)

Swedish

pultron (coward, poltroon, recreant). (various references)

Turkish

alçak kimse (caitiff, fink, hangdog, rascal), alçak herif (bugger, rascal, scoundrel, skunk, spalpeen, swab, wretch), adi kimse, aşağılık kimse (bounder, caitiff, dirty dog, heel, jerk, louse, no good, reptile, reptilian, skunk, snot, swob). (various references)

Ukrainian

негідник, що ді�" нишком, мерзенний боягуз, боязкий (backward, bashful, coward, dastardly, diffident, eerie, eery, faint-hearted, fearful, heartless, nervous, ovine, pavid, poor spirited, shamefaced, sheepish, spiritless, timid, timorous), підлий (babylonian, base, base-born, beggarly, caddish, caitiff, cheap, dastardly, dishonorable, dishonourable, grimy, hangdog, hoggish, ignoble, low down, mean-spirited, nefarious, niddering, picayune, rascal, reprobate, scabbed, scoundrel, scummy, scurvy, small, sneaking, sneaky, vile, yellow dog), полохливий (coward, dastardly, funky, pavid, pigeon-hearted, poor spirited, scarey, scary, shy). (various references)

Vietnamese 

kẻ hèn nhát kẻ ném đá giấu tay. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "dastard": dastardliness, dastardlinesses, dastardly, dastards. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Dastard" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: D'achard, Dastor, dastra, Dataid, destard, destra, dnastar, Fastrada. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: dadas, darts, drats.

-3 letters: adds, arts, dada, dads, dart, data, drat, rads, rats, sard, star, tads, tars, trad, tsar.

-4 letters: aas, add, ads, ars, art, dad, rad, ras, rat, sad, sat, tad, tar, tas.

-5 letters: aa, ad, ar, as, at, ta.

+1 letter: dastards, standard.

+2 letters: astraddle, dastardly, hardstand, roadstead, standards.

+3 letters: andradites, dartboards, daytraders, desiderata, dramatised, grandstand, hardstands, roadsteads, standardly.

+4 letters: balustraded, bastardised, bastardized, broadcasted, grandstands, nonstandard, ritardandos, standardise, standardize, starboarded, substandard, taradiddles, tardigrades.

+5 letters: adjudicators, candidatures, degradations, grandstanded, grandstander, handbreadths, handsbreadth, hardstanding, standardbred, standardised, standardises, standardized, standardizes, standardless, tarradiddles.