blackguard

blackguard has 9 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 10.

Definitions

• n.. 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.
• n.. The criminals and vagrants or vagabonds of a town or community, collectively.
• n.. A person of stained or low character, esp. one who uses scurrilous language, or treats others with foul abuse; a scoundrel; a rough.
• n.. A vagrant; a bootblack; a gamin.
• v. t.. To revile or abuse in scurrilous language.
• a.. Scurrilous; abusive; low; worthless; vicious; as, blackguard language.
• n.. someone who is morally reprehensible; "you dirty dog"
• v.. use foul or abusive language towards; "The actress abused the policeman who gave her a parking ticket"; "The angry mother shouted at the teacher"
• v.. 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"