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dastard

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das⋅tard

  [das-terd]
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–noun
1. a mean, sneaking coward.
–adjective
2. of or befitting a dastard; mean, sneaky, and cowardly.
Origin:
1400–50; late ME < ?.
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das·tard   (dās'tərd)   
n.  A sneaking, malicious coward.

[Middle English, probably alteration of Old Norse dæstr, exhausted, from past participle of dæsa, to languish, decay.]
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