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[das-terd] Origin

das·tard

[das-terd]
noun
1.
a mean, sneaking coward.
adjective
2.
of or befitting a dastard; mean, sneaky, and cowardly.

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Dastard is always a great word to know.
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a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English < ?.
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dastard (ˈdæstəd)
 
n
archaic a contemptible sneaking coward
 
[C15 (in the sense: dullard): probably from Old Norse dæstr exhausted, out of breath]

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dastard
mid-15c., "one who is lazy or dull;" an English formation on a French model, probably from *dast, "dazed," pp. of dasen "to daze" + (see daze) + deprecatory suffix -ard. Meaning "one who shirks from danger" is late 15c.
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