blackguardとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

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.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈblæɡəd/
  • (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈblæɡɚd/
  • 韻: -æɡə(ɹ)d

名詞

blackguard (複数形 blackguards)

1. (old-fashioned, usually used only of men) A scoundrel; an unprincipled contemptible person; an untrustworthy person.
   • 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.}}

   • 1899, Knut Hamsun, “Part I”, in George Egerton [pseudonym; Mary Chavelita Dunne Bright], transl., Hunger: Translated from the Norwegian, London: Leonard Smithers and Co. […], OCLC 560168646; republished New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, October 1920 (December 1920 printing), OCLC 189563, page 58:

     Pawn another man's property for the sake of a meal, eat and drink one's self to perdition, brand one's soul with the first little sear, set the first black mark against one's honour, call one's self a blackguard to one's own face, and needs must cast one's eyes down before one's self? Never! never!

   • 2006, Jan Freeman, 'Blaggards' of the year – Boston Globe

     "Arrr, keelhaul the blaggards!" wrote Ty Burr in the Globe last summer, pronouncing sentence on the malefactors who brought us the second "Pirates of the Caribbean" movie.

2. (archaic) A man who uses foul language in front of a woman, typically a woman of high standing in society.

派生語

• blackguardism
• blackguardly

参考

• blagger

動詞

blackguard (三人称単数 現在形 blackguards, 現在分詞 blackguarding, 過去形および過去分詞形 blackguarded)

1. (transitive) To revile or abuse in scurrilous language.

   (Can we find かつ add a quotation of Southey to this entry?)

2. (intransitive) To act like a blackguard; to be a scoundrel.

Further reading

• Blackguard in the 1920 edition of Encyclopedia Americana.