Blaggard vs. Blackguard

Blaggard and Blackguard Definitions
Blaggard
Alternative form of blackguard.
Blackguard
A thoroughly unprincipled person; a scoundrel.
Blackguard
A foul-mouthed person.
Blackguard
To abuse verbally; revile.
Blackguard
The lowest servant in a household charged with pots, pans, and other kitchen equipment.
Blackguard
(old-fashioned, usually used only of men) A scoundrel; an unprincipled contemptible person; an untrustworthy person.
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Blackguard
(archaic) A man who uses foul language in front of a woman, typically a woman of high standing in society.
Blackguard
(transitive) To revile or abuse in scurrilous language.
Blackguard
(intransitive) To act like a blackguard; to be a scoundrel.
Blackguard
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.
A lousy slave, that . . . rode with the black guard in the duke's carriage, 'mongst spits and dripping pans.
Blackguard
The criminals and vagrants or vagabonds of a town or community, collectively.
Blackguard
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.
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Blackguard
A vagrant; a bootblack; a gamin.
Blackguard
To revile or abuse in scurrilous language.
Blackguard
Scurrilous; abusive; low; worthless; vicious; as, blackguard language.
Blackguard
Someone who is morally reprehensible;
You dirty dog
Blackguard
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
Blackguard
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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