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Definitions
use foul or abusive language towards
Word origin
From black + guard, thought to have referred originally to the scullions and lower menials of a court, or of a nobleman's household, who wore black liveries or blacked shoes and boots, or were often stained with soot.
Used in a sentence
“1830, Thomas Macaulay, Review of Robert Southey's edition of Pilgrim's Progress, in the Edinburgh Review A man whose manners and sentiments are decidedly below those of his class deserves to be called a blackguard.”
“Persons who passed each other in boats upon the Thames used to blackguard each other, in a trial of wit”
“The Southern Region takes, in the main, a candid line with its public. […] An ill-informed attempt to blackguard the railway publicly is likely to see the complainant put politely—but very firmly—in his place.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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