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blackguard
blackguard is a 10-letter English word with 9 senses as noun, transitive verb, adjective, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 20 in Scrabble and 25 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
10 letters · Scrabble 20 · Words With Friends 25 · 9 senses
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- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
The criminals and vagrants or vagabonds of a town or community, collectively.
- 3noun
A person of stained or low character, esp. one who uses scurrilous language, or treats others with foul abuse; a scoundrel; a rough.
- 4noun
A vagrant; a bootblack; a gamin.
- 5transitive verb
To revile or abuse in scurrilous language.
- 6adjective
Scurrilous; abusive; low; worthless; vicious; as, blackguard language.
- 7noun
someone who is morally reprehensible
"you dirty dog"
- 8verb
use foul or abusive language towards
"The actress abused the policeman who gave her a parking ticket"
"The angry mother shouted at the teacher"
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- 9verb
subject to laughter or ridicule
"The satirists ridiculed the plans for a new opera house"
"The students poked fun at the inexperienced teacher"
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