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.
Definitions
- noun. 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.
- noun. The criminals and vagrants or vagabonds of a town or community, collectively.
- noun. A person of stained or low character, esp. one who uses scurrilous language, or treats others with foul abuse; a scoundrel; a rough.
- noun. A vagrant; a bootblack; a gamin.
- transitive verb. To revile or abuse in scurrilous language.
- adjective. Scurrilous; abusive; low; worthless; vicious; as, blackguard language.
- noun. someone who is morally reprehensible
"you dirty dog"
- verb. use foul or abusive language towards
"The actress abused the policeman who gave her a parking ticket"
"The angry mother shouted at the teacher"
- verb. subject to laughter or ridicule
"The satirists ridiculed the plans for a new opera house"
"The students poked fun at the inexperienced teacher"
Synonyms
bounder, cad, dog, heel, hound, abuse, clapperclaw, shout, guy, rib, ridicule, roast
Common word forms
blackguards, blackguardly, blackguardize
Words from these letters
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