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Dastard

Dastard Meaning & Definition
Dastard Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Dastard?

[n] a malicious coward

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Dastard In Webster's Dictionary

\Das"tard\, n. [Prob. from Icel. d[ae]str exhausted. breathless, p. p. of d[ae]sa to groan, lose one's breath; cf. dasask to become exhausted, and E. daze.] One who meanly shrinks from danger; an arrant coward; a poltroon. You are all recreants and dashtards, and delight to live in slavery to the nobility. --Shak.
\Das"tard\, a. Meanly shrinking from danger; cowardly; dastardly. ``Their dastard souls.'' --Addison.
\Das"tard\, v. t. To dastardize. [R.] --Dryden.

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