BLACKGUARD

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blackguard
n. villain, evil person


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Black Guard
The Black Guard (in Arabic, Abid, from a root meaning "slave") were the corps of black-African slave-soldiers assembled by the Alaouite sultan of Morocco, Mawlay Ismail (reigned 1672-1727). The Black Guard descended from black captives brought to Morocco from sub-Saharan Africa, who were settled in a special colony and given wives; their male offspring would be pressed into military careers at the age of sixteen. Considered more reliable than Arab or Berber warriors because of their lack of tribal loyalties, Ismail's black soldiers formed the bulk of his standing army and numbered 150,000 at their peak.
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blackguard
Noun
1. someone who is morally reprehensible; "you dirty dog"
(synonym) cad, bounder, dog, hound, heel
(hypernym) villain, scoundrel
(hyponym) perisher
Verb
1. 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"
(synonym) ridicule, roast, guy, laugh at, jest at, rib, make fun, poke fun
(hypernym) mock, bemock
(hyponym) tease
2. use foul or abusive language towards; "The actress abused the policeman who gave her a parking ticket"; "The angry mother shouted at the teacher"
(synonym) abuse, clapperclaw, shout
(hypernym) attack, round, assail, lash out, snipe, assault
(hyponym) slang


Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)Download this dictionary
Blackguard
(v. t.)
To revile or abuse in scurrilous language.
  
 
(n.)
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.
  
 
(n.)
The criminals and vagrants or vagabonds of a town or community, collectively.
  
 
(n.)
A vagrant; a bootblack; a gamin.
  
 
(n.)
A person of stained or low character, esp. one who uses scurrilous language, or treats others with foul abuse; a scoundrel; a rough.
  
 
(a.)
Scurrilous; abusive; low; worthless; vicious; as, blackguard language.
  

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blackguard
لچا , لچا گنڈا , پاجي , بدمعاش , لقندرا

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