blackguard Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun someone who is morally reprehensible
    bounder; dog; hound; heel; cad.
    • you dirty dog
  2. verb subject to laughter or ridicule
    laugh at; make fun; ridicule; poke fun; roast; guy; rib; jest at.
    • 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
  3. verb use foul or abusive language towards
    shout; abuse; clapperclaw.
    • The actress abused the policeman who gave her a parking ticket
    • The angry mother shouted at the teacher

WordNet

Black"guard noun
Etymology
Black + guard.
Definitions
  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.
Black"guard` transitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Blackguarded; present participle & verbal noun Blackguarding
Definitions
  1. To revile or abuse in scurrilous language. Southey.
Black"guard adjective
Definitions
  1. Scurrilous; abusive; low; worthless; vicious; as, blackguard language.

Webster 1913