"dastard" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ˈdɑːstəd/ [UK], /ˈdæstəd/ [UK], /ˈdæstɚd/ [General-American] Audio: En-us-dastard.oga Forms: more dastard [comparative], most dastard [superlative]
Rhymes: (UK) -ɑːstəd, (General American) -æstə(ɹ)d Etymology: From Middle English dastard (“a dullard”), most likely formed from *dast, a base derived from Old Norse dæstr (“exhausted, breathless”) + -ard. Compare Icelandic dasaður (“exhausted”), dialectal Swedish däst (“weary”), Middle Dutch dasaert, daasaardt (“a fool”), English dazed (“stupefied”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|dastard||a dullard}} Middle English dastard (“a dullard”), {{der|en|non|dæstr||exhausted, breathless}} Old Norse dæstr (“exhausted, breathless”), {{suffix|en||ard}} + -ard, {{cog|is|dasaður||exhausted}} Icelandic dasaður (“exhausted”), {{cog|sv|däst||weary}} Swedish däst (“weary”), {{cog|dum|dasaert}} Middle Dutch dasaert, {{cog|en|dazed||stupefied}} English dazed (“stupefied”) Head templates: {{en-adj}} dastard (comparative more dastard, superlative most dastard)
  1. Meanly shrinking from danger, cowardly, dastardly. Translations (meanly shrinking from danger, cowardly): hinterhältig (German), heimtückisch (German)
    Sense id: en-dastard-en-adj-kwFDpiAM

Noun

IPA: /ˈdɑːstəd/ [UK], /ˈdæstəd/ [UK], /ˈdæstɚd/ [General-American] Audio: En-us-dastard.oga Forms: dastards [plural]
Rhymes: (UK) -ɑːstəd, (General American) -æstə(ɹ)d Etymology: From Middle English dastard (“a dullard”), most likely formed from *dast, a base derived from Old Norse dæstr (“exhausted, breathless”) + -ard. Compare Icelandic dasaður (“exhausted”), dialectal Swedish däst (“weary”), Middle Dutch dasaert, daasaardt (“a fool”), English dazed (“stupefied”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|dastard||a dullard}} Middle English dastard (“a dullard”), {{der|en|non|dæstr||exhausted, breathless}} Old Norse dæstr (“exhausted, breathless”), {{suffix|en||ard}} + -ard, {{cog|is|dasaður||exhausted}} Icelandic dasaður (“exhausted”), {{cog|sv|däst||weary}} Swedish däst (“weary”), {{cog|dum|dasaert}} Middle Dutch dasaert, {{cog|en|dazed||stupefied}} English dazed (“stupefied”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} dastard (plural dastards)
  1. A malicious coward; a dishonorable sneak. Derived forms: dastardling, dastardy Translations (malicious coward): Feigling [masculine] (German), Heimtücker [masculine] (German)
    Sense id: en-dastard-en-noun-XiSOFoX1

Verb

IPA: /ˈdɑːstəd/ [UK], /ˈdæstəd/ [UK], /ˈdæstɚd/ [General-American] Audio: En-us-dastard.oga Forms: dastards [present, singular, third-person], dastarding [participle, present], dastarded [participle, past], dastarded [past]
Rhymes: (UK) -ɑːstəd, (General American) -æstə(ɹ)d Etymology: From Middle English dastard (“a dullard”), most likely formed from *dast, a base derived from Old Norse dæstr (“exhausted, breathless”) + -ard. Compare Icelandic dasaður (“exhausted”), dialectal Swedish däst (“weary”), Middle Dutch dasaert, daasaardt (“a fool”), English dazed (“stupefied”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|dastard||a dullard}} Middle English dastard (“a dullard”), {{der|en|non|dæstr||exhausted, breathless}} Old Norse dæstr (“exhausted, breathless”), {{suffix|en||ard}} + -ard, {{cog|is|dasaður||exhausted}} Icelandic dasaður (“exhausted”), {{cog|sv|däst||weary}} Swedish däst (“weary”), {{cog|dum|dasaert}} Middle Dutch dasaert, {{cog|en|dazed||stupefied}} English dazed (“stupefied”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} dastard (third-person singular simple present dastards, present participle dastarding, simple past and past participle dastarded)
  1. To dastardize. Categories (topical): People Synonyms: poltroon, craven Derived forms: dastardly, dastardness
    Sense id: en-dastard-en-verb-pIPfsGLB Disambiguation of People: 18 33 49 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ard, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with German translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 17 12 72 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ard: 16 15 69 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 11 7 83 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 11 8 80 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 8 4 88 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 13 10 77

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          "text": "My client, an innately bashful man, would be the last man in the world to do anything ungentlemanly which injured modesty could object to or cast a stone at a girl who took the wrong turning when some dastard, responsible for her condition, had worked his own sweet will on her.",
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          "text": "Observe, too, that this is all a modern affair; belongs not to the old heroic times, but to these dastard new times. ‘Happiness our being’s end and aim’ is at bottom, if we will count well, not yet two centuries old in the world.",
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      "word": "hinterhältig"
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          "text": "1665, John Dryden, The Indian Emperour, or the Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards, being the Sequel of The Indian Queen, Act II, Scene 1, http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/12166/pg12166-images.html\nWould my short life had yet a shorter date! / I'm weary of this flesh which holds us here, / And dastards manly souls with hope and fear; / These heats and colds still in our breast make war, / Agues and fevers all our passions are."
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