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Definition: Blackguard |
BlackguardNoun1. Someone who is morally reprehensible; "you dirty dog". Verb1. Subject to laughter or ridicule: "The satirists ridiculed the plans for a new opera house"; "The students poked fun at the inexperienced teacher". 2. Use foul or abusive language towards; "The actress abused the policeman who gave her a parking ticket"; "The angry mother shouted at the teacher". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "blackguard" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Satire | BLACKGUARD, n. A man whose qualities, prepared for display like a box of berries in a market -- the fine ones on top -- have been opened on the wrong side. An inverted gentleman. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
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Synonyms: BlackguardSynonyms: bounder (n), cad (n), dog (n), heel (n), hound (n), abuse (v), clapperclaw (v), guy (v), jest at (v), laugh at (v), make fun (v), poke fun (v), rib (v), ridicule (v), shout (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Bad Man | Blackguard, polisson, loafer, sneak; rapscallion, rascallion; cullion, mean wretch, varlet, kern, ame-de-boue, drole; cur, dog, hound, whelp, mongrel; lown, loon, runnion, outcast, vagabond; rogue; (knave); ronian; scum of the earth, riffraff; Arcades ambo. |
Discourtesy | Bear, bruin, brute, blackguard, beast; unlicked cub; frump, crosspatch; saucebox; crooked stick; grizzly. |
Adjective: discourteous, uncourteous; uncourtly; ill-bred, ill-mannered, ill-behaved, ill-conditioned; unbred; unmannerly, unmannered; impolite, unpolite; unpolished, uncivilized, ungenteel; ungentleman-like, ungentlemanly; unladylike; blackguard; vulgar; dedecorous; foul-mouthed foul-spoken; abusive. | |
Improbity | Infamous, arrant, foul, base, vile, ignominious, blackguard. |
Knave | Noun: knave, rogue; Scapin, rascal; Lazarillo de Tormes; bad man; blackguard; barrater, barrator; shyster. |
Vulgarity | Unkempt. uncombed, untamed, unlicked, unpolished, uncouth; plebeian; incondite; heavy, rude, awkward; homely, homespun, home bred; provincial, countrified, rustic; boorish, clownish; savage, brutish, blackguard, rowdy, snobbish; barbarous, barbaric; Gothic, |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Blackguard |
| English words defined with "blackguard": Blackguarded, Blackguarding, Blackguardism. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "blackguard": Coals, Cynic ♦ Offensive. (references) |
| Author | Quotation |
Edgar Allan Poe | Believe me, there exists no such dilemma as that in which a gentleman is placed when he is forced to reply to a blackguard. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He refused fees, and gave sous to every little blackguard he met. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | OFFENSIVE, adj. Generating disagreeable emotions or sensations, as the advance of an army against its enemy. "Were the enemy's tactics offensive?" the king asked. "I should say so!" replied the unsuccessful general. "The blackguard wouldn't come out of his works!" |
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| "Blackguard" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Blackguard" is used about 14 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 14 | 93,893 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
blackguard | 12 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "blackguard"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | batakçi (blackleg, con man, fiddler, grafter, gyp, humbug, hustler, knave, leg, picaroon, rogue, scaramouch, sharper, slicker, trickster, twister, villain), shaj rëndë (lambaste), maskara (bastard, miscreant, scab), kopuk (bad character, cad, knave, miscreant, rapscallion, rascal, reprobate, ruffian, scamp, scapegrace, varmint, villain). (various references) | |
Arabic | حقر (abase, despise, insult, pig, put down, revile), سب (blaspheme, revile, shake, slur, swear, tick), ذم (asperse, blacken, disparage, disparagement, dispraise, invective, slur, vilify, vituperate, vituperation), الوغد (kite, knave, loon, rapscallion, rascal, rogue, scamp, scapegrace, scoundrel, villain), الحقير (rat, villain, wretch), بذئ اللسان. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | ругая грубо, мошеник (cheat, crook, dead beat, deadbeat, dodger, grafter, gyp, hustler, jongleur, knave, palmer, picaroon, rogue, scoundrel, sham, shark, sharp, skin, trickster, varlet, wretch), мизерник, подлец (bastard, caitiff, creep, dastard, hangdog, ratface, recreant, reprobate, scoundrel, skunk, sneak, sneaker, snot, twerp, villain, wretch, yellow dog). (various references) | |
Czech | nièema (heel, miscreant, rogue, rotter, ruffian, scoundrel, vagabond, villain), lump (bad lot, heel, knave, louse, rascal, skunk, villain, wretch), lotr (miscreant, ruffian, swine), darebák (crook, rascal, rogue, rowdy, ruffian, villain). (various references) | |
French | fripouille, canaille. (various references) | |
German | schurke (a rascally fellow, baddie, bounder, cheat, crook, desperado, knave, miscreant, rascal, rogue, scoundrel, scoundrell, villain), schuft (cad, cheat, crook, cur, heel, meanie, rascal, rogue, scamp, scoundrel, villain, wretch). (various references) | |
Greek | προσβάλλω (affect, afflict, affront, assail, assault, attack, encroach, insult, mob, offend, outrage, shock, slight), παλιάνθρωποσ (knave, miscreant, rascal, rotter, scalawag, scamp, scapegrace, scoundrel, skunk). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ל'"ף (abuse, curse, defame, insult, revile, slang, taunt, vilify, vituperate), לבזות (abase, degrade, despise, scorn), ל בל את "פ" (scurrilous, swear, talk dirty, utter obscenities). (various references) | |
Hungarian | gazember (bad hat, bad lot, bastard, bugger, deceiver, miscreant, rascal, rogue, s.o.b., scoundrel, shabby fellow, shag, son of a gun, thief, villain). (various references) | |
Indonesian | bandit (bandit, gangster). (various references) | |
Italian | mascalzone (cad, rascal, rogue, rotter, scalawag, scallywag, scoundrel, villain, yahoo). (various references) | |
Manx | mooidjeen (fellow, outcast, outlaw, rascal, scoundrel, villain). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ackguardblay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | insultar (abuse, affront, clapperclaw, fly in the face of, insult, outrage, revile, vituperate), garoto (boy, chit, kid, kiddy, knavish, rascal, rotter, snipe), canalha (canaille, heavy, mean-spirited, miscreant, mob, rabble, riffraff, rogue, rotter, scam artist, scoundrel, villain). (various references) | |
Romanian | escroc (bilk, biter, blackleg, carpet bagger, charlatan, cheat, crook, desperado, double-dealer, duffer, faker, fraud, gambler, gamester, gouge, gyp, impostor, jockey, juggler, knave, mountebank, rogue, rook, scab, shark, sharp, sharper, snap, swindler). (various references) | |
Russian | подлец (coyote, dastard, dog, mean-spirited fellow, pimp, rascal, reprobate, scoundrel, whoreson). (various references) | |
Scottish | siota (a blackguard). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | nitkov (cad, cur, scamp, scoundrel), hulja (bugger, dastard, scamp, spalpeen). (various references) | |
Spanish | vilipendiar (revile, vilify), sinvergüenza (blighter, bounder, cad, miscreant, rotter, scoundrel, shameless, shocker, you little beggar, you little perisher), pillo (rascal, rogue, roguish), canalla (cad, cur, heel, hound, mob, outsider, rabble, rat, riff raff, scab, scalawag, scallawag, scallywag, scapegrace, scoundrel, skunk, stinker, swine, you cad). (various references) | |
Swedish | skurk (baddie, cheat, crook, heavy, jackal, louses, miscreant, mug, rapscallion, rogue, ruffian, scoundrel, villain, viper), kanalje (canaille, cheat, knave, swindler). (various references) | |
Turkish | terbiyesiz (bad, blackguardly, broad, caddish, churlish, coarse, coarse grained, dirty, graceless, ill bred, ill mannered, immodest, immoral, impertinent, impolite, improper, impudent, indelicate, inelegant, insolent, mannerless, naughty, ribald, risky, risque, rude, scabrous, shameless, uncultured, underbred, undressed, unmannerly, unpolished), sövüp saymak (badmouth, blaspheme against, miscall, swear, swear like a bargee), küfretmek (abuse, blaspheme, blaspheme against, blow, call names, curse, rail, revile, revile against smth., revile at smth., slang, swear, vituperate), küfürbaz (abusive, foul-mouthed, foul-spoken, obscene talker, scurrilous, swearer, swearing, vituperative), alçak (abandoned, abject, base, baseborn, contemptible, cowardly, dastardly, heel, humble, ignoble, lousy, low, low down, lowrise, misbegotten, nasty, nefarious, no good, rascally, ravisher, recreant, scoundrel, scoundrelly, short, sneak, sneaking, sneaky, sordid, squat, swab, swob, vile, villainous). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | вуличний хлопчина (mudlark), негідник (cad, caitiff, cullion, gallows, miscreant, niddering, pimp, rascal, reprobate, scoundrel, skunk, thief, varlet, wretch), підло поводитися. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người đê tiện người ăn nói tục tĩu, đê tiện tục tĩu. (various references) | |
Welsh | dihiryn (rascal, scoundrel), difri%o (abuse, malign, scold). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "blackguard": blackguarded, blackguarding, blackguardism, blackguardisms, blackguardly, blackguards. (additional references) | |
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"Blackguard" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: blackgaurd, blackguar. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-d-g-k-l-r-u" | |
-3 letters: gradual. | |
-4 letters: bacula, buckra, caudal, radula. | |
-5 letters: aback, alack, argal, aural, baulk, black, cabal, cauld, caulk, craal, ducal, dural, graal, guard, gular, kabar, kraal, labra, laura, rugal. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-c-d-g-k-l-r-u" | |
+1 letter: blackguards. | |
+2 letters: blackguarded, blackguardly. | |
+3 letters: blackguarding, blackguardism. | |
+4 letters: blackguardisms. | |
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