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BLACKGUARD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blackguard mean? 

BLACKGUARD (noun)
  The noun BLACKGUARD has 1 sense:

1. someone who is morally reprehensibleplay

  Familiarity information: BLACKGUARD used as a noun is very rare.


BLACKGUARD (verb)
  The verb BLACKGUARD has 2 senses:

1. subject to laughter or ridiculeplay

2. use foul or abusive language towardsplay

  Familiarity information: BLACKGUARD used as a verb is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BLACKGUARD (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who is morally reprehensible

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

blackguard; bounder; cad; dog; heel; hound

Context example:

you dirty dog

Hypernyms ("blackguard" is a kind of...):

scoundrel; villain (a wicked or evil person; someone who does evil deliberately)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "blackguard"):

perisher (bounder)

Derivation:

blackguardly (lacking principles or scruples)


BLACKGUARD (verb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Subject to laughter or ridicule

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

blackguard; guy; jest at; laugh at; make fun; poke fun; rib; ridicule; roast

Context example:

His former students roasted the professor at his 60th birthday

Hypernyms (to "blackguard" is one way to...):

bemock; mock (treat with contempt)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "blackguard"):

tease (mock or make fun of playfully)

lampoon; satirise; satirize (ridicule with satire)

debunk; expose (expose while ridiculing; especially of pretentious or false claims and ideas)

stultify (cause to appear foolish)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody


Sense 2

Meaning:

Use foul or abusive language towards

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

abuse; blackguard; clapperclaw; shout

Context example:

The angry mother shouted at the teacher

Hypernyms (to "blackguard" is one way to...):

assail; assault; attack; lash out; round; snipe (attack in speech or writing)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "blackguard"):

slang (abuse with coarse language)

rail; revile; vilify; vituperate (spread negative information about)

curse (heap obscenities upon)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody


 Context examples 


So he went off cursing, like the foul-mouthed blackguard that he was, and swearing that he would have her yet.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I had eight thousand from him at a sitting. ‘I shall drink your beer in future, Mr. Brewer,’ said I. ‘Every blackguard in London does,’ said he.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

‘You blackguard!’ I shouted, beside myself with rage. ‘You have destroyed it!’

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I have not so much to say for my friend Flora, who jilted a very nice young man in the Blues for the sake of that horrid Lord Stornaway, who has about as much sense, Fanny, as Mr. Rushworth, but much worse-looking, and with a blackguard character.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

My business was to declare myself a scoundrel, and whether I did it with a bow or a bluster was of little importance.— 'I am ruined for ever in their opinion—' said I to myself—'I am shut out for ever from their society, they already think me an unprincipled fellow, this letter will only make them think me a blackguard one.' Such were my reasonings, as, in a sort of desperate carelessness, I copied my wife's words, and parted with the last relics of Marianne.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

They’ve got her, that hell-hound Woodley and the blackguard parson.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Yes, Watson, I went there, and I found very quickly that the late lamented Oldacre was a pretty considerable blackguard.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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