Clues for the word "BLACKGUARD"
We've had 6 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 10 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Easy crossword on September 16, 2022.
Definition of blackguard
- 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 person of stained or low character, esp. one who uses scurrilous language, or treats others with foul abuse; a scoundrel; a rough.
- n. - A vagrant; a bootblack; a gamin.
- v. t. - To revile or abuse in scurrilous language.
- a. - Scurrilous; abusive; low; worthless; vicious; as, blackguard language.
Referring Clues
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Easy - September 16, 2022
- Guardian Quick - January 25, 2017
- Evening Standard Easy - September 30, 2016
- Evening Standard Easy - June 10, 2016
- Guardian Quick - April 05, 2012
- Guardian Quick - December 24, 2010
- Guardian Cryptic - August 14, 2008
- Guardian Prize - March 24, 2007
- Guardian Quick - December 25, 2005
- Guardian Quiptic - February 10, 2003