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Originally Posted by Gate
Not so keen on vision or apparition myself, but I do like the rest of them. Get me replacements for those 2 please!  |
Same, really.
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Besides which, blackguard, according to the dictionary means;
'1. A thoroughly unprincipled person; a scoundrel.
2. A foul-mouthed person.'
But it sounds cool by me.
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A blackguard was a shoe-shiner. Apparantly London* shoe-shiners were a bunch of thieving bastards.
Edit: Hm, online etymology doesn't quite agree with me:
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Originally Posted by http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=blackguard&searchmode=none
blackguard
1532, of uncertain application. Perhaps once an actual military or guard unit; more likely orig. a mock-military ref. to scullions and kitchen-knaves of noble households, of black-liveried personal guards, and of shoeblacks. By 1736, sense had emerged of "one of the criminal class."
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* Though I'm not sure if it's specific for London, that's the context in which I've read about it.