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.
Blackguard(n.)
- The criminals and vagrants or vagabonds of a town or community, collectively.
Blackguard(n.)
- A person of stained or low character, esp. one who uses scurrilous language, or treats others with foul abuse; a scoundrel; a rough.