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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Blackguard \Black"guard'\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Blackguarded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Blackguarding}.] To revile or abuse in scurrilous language. --Southey.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Blackguard \Black"guard\ (bl[a^]g"g[aum]rd), noun [Black + guard.]
1. 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. [Obs.]
A lousy slave, that . . . rode with the black guard in the duke's carriage, 'mongst spits and dripping pans. --Webster (1612).
2. The criminals and vagrants or vagabonds of a town or community, collectively. [Obs.]
3. A person of stained or low character, esp. one who uses scurrilous language, or treats others with foul abuse; a scoundrel; a rough.
A man whose manners and sentiments are decidedly below those of his class deserves to be called a blackguard. --Macaulay.
4. A vagrant; a bootblack; a gamin. [Obs.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Blackguard \Black"guard\, adjective Scurrilous; abusive; low; worthless; vicious; as, blackguard language.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
blackguard
noun: someone who is morally reprehensible; "you dirty dog" [syn: {cad}, {bounder}, {dog}, {hound}, {heel}]
verb
1: 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" [syn: {ridicule}, {roast}, {guy}, {laugh at}, {jest at}, {rib}, {make fun}, {poke fun}]
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" [syn: {abuse}, {clapperclaw}, {shout}]
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
BLACKGUARD, noun 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.
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