Blaggard vs. Blackguard: What's the Difference?

Alternative form of blackguard.

A thoroughly unprincipled person; a scoundrel.

A foul-mouthed person.

To abuse verbally; revile.

The lowest servant in a household charged with pots, pans, and other kitchen equipment.

(old-fashioned, usually used only of men) A scoundrel; an unprincipled contemptible person; an untrustworthy person.

(archaic) A man who uses foul language in front of a woman, typically a woman of high standing in society.

(transitive) To revile or abuse in scurrilous language.

(intransitive) To act like a blackguard; to be a scoundrel.

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.

The criminals and vagrants or vagabonds of a town or community, collectively.

A person of stained or low character, esp. one who uses scurrilous language, or treats others with foul abuse; a scoundrel; a rough.

A vagrant; a bootblack; a gamin.

To revile or abuse in scurrilous language.

Scurrilous; abusive; low; worthless; vicious; as, blackguard language.

Someone who is morally reprehensible;

Subject to laughter or ridicule;

Use foul or abusive language towards;