(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.
(1) Here he is on the Nasty Party in 1835, in a letter to Catherine Hogarth (soon to take the name Dickens, as his wife): "... a ruthless set of bloody-minded villains... perfect savage... superlative blackguards..." Two days later he ended another letter: "P.S.
Longhand
Definition:
(n.) The written characters used in the common method of writing; -- opposed to shorthand.
Example Sentences:
(1) King finished the outline at about midnight and then wrote a draft in longhand.
(2) Maybe it was the peace and quiet of the cosy, carpeted, sun-drenched study at home in Chappaqua, upstate New York, with views over the treetops, where she wrote much of Hard Choices in longhand.
(3) A Princeton University spokesman said: "The story is probably an unauthorised version transcribed longhand in our reading room.
(4) I still write longhand with a pencil and retype the manuscript, slowly, with my right hand.
(5) The midges were discouraging longhand explanations, so I said that a friend of mine had written a book called Waterlog about wild swimming, and now I couldn't keep out of the water.
(6) Dr Holland made his comments on the case in shorthand and his instructions in longhand.
(7) I don't think there is any doubt that a trained typist can type faster and more legibly than it is possible to write in longhand.
(8) Gessen, a founder of the combative literary journal N+1 who writes in longhand to avoid being distracted by the internet, told Gould never to read the article, but then Twitter went into full-on hyperventilation mode as other women came forward to accuse Champion of harassing them online.