Blackguard

noun

verb — past tense: blackguarded ; past participle: blackguarded ; present participle: blackguarding ;

ENGLISH MEANING

noun

1.: A person of stained or low character, esp. one who uses scurrilous language, or treats others with foul abuse; a scoundrel; a rough.
2.: 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.
3.: The criminals and vagrants or vagabonds of a town or community, collectively.
4.: A vagrant; a bootblack; a gamin.

adjective

verb — past tense: blackguarded ; past participle: blackguarded ; present participle: blackguarding ;