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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Started thinking about this spelling. I think there are a number of people who use it, who do not think about, and probably don’t even realize the fact, that etymologically it is blackguard . This fading of the analyzability of a form is of course very common: breakfast has nothing to do with breaking one’s fast in most people’s minds nowadays, anymore may have little to do with any or more anymore, and so on.
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In this case there is probably for many (as for me when I hear the word pronounced or see it written as blaggard ) an association, almost amounting to a morphemic analysis, linking it to laggard and braggart , possibly haggard as well. They’re all pretty unpleasant things to call a person.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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Google suggests (and of course, raw hit estimates must be taken with a large grain of salt) that there are about 2,500 raw hits for “you blaggard” in its records, compared to about 52,700 for “you black-guard”. There are also an estimated 2,430 for “you black heart”, though many of these may be misspellings of “your black heart”. “Black guard” hits are also likely skewed, though, due to the popularity of the phrase as a nickname or term of art in role-playing games.
That for your Royal Prerogative, you blaggard!
Just over a month after the popular revolution which ended direct monarchical rule, the Nepali Parliament has voted unanimously to emasculate their king,
http://norightturn.blogspot.com/2006/06 … e-you.html
I said yes you blaggard, and jesus is god along with his father and the holy spirit, i said so why are you so critisizing?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaEuHnfEqlA
“For shame! you rascally poltroon! how dare you insult him so! Don’t he suffer enough—a man of his feelings—without being so reminded of it?—get out, you black-guard!”
http://www.iath.virginia.edu/utc/prosla … ha12t.html
Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning – Forums : Career Discussions : Dark Elves : Black Guards :
i thought i would post it hit to see what all you black guard vets think.
http://forums.warhammeronline.com/warha … ad.id=1578
W.R. Grace, You Black Heart. You Make Me….Sick
http://themadskeptic.blogspot.com/2009/ … -make.html
I want you black heart to break. When you see me walk away. I need you to be consumed with desire.
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/black-heart-break/
Perhaps I’ll try searching COCA or Lexis-Nexis for smaller, possibly more accurate numbers.
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Blackguard had best look out for blagger, which seems to have sprung from English dialect.
“Internet blag of the year”:
I know what “blog†and “bleg†are, but “blag�
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to “blag†somewhere is to burgle it. In extended usage “a blagâ€; a steal. I’m trying to popularise it as an alternative to the frankly vile word “blegâ€.
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Not to challenge you on English criminal slang, DD, but I thought a “blag†was an armed holdup rather than a burglary.
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A “blagueur†in French is a joker or bullshit artist. I’ve tried to popularize the term, but no one seemed interested.
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“you blagger†is, I believe, slang in Coventry for an unserious person.
(http://crookedtimber.org/2005/04/08/int … ll-street/)
Note: A “bleg” is a blog that begs for support, help, money.
Blogger off you blagger:
Gerry McCann is at it again….No not dumping dead children, the bugger is blogging again or should that be Blagger is blogging again?. Where I come from that is the common name given to someone who twists the truth to get out of trouble.
(http://mccanns-ihavesomethingtosay.blog … 4163320000)
See also multiple more or less similar definitions on Urban dictionary for blag and blagger
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I think ‘blackheart’ an excellent eggcorn of blackguard/blaggard, but feel it only fair to mention that blagger/blackguard was first noticed by David-the-fishbaits (the only one of us to be a double-eggcornista) under the title of carpetblaggers a year or two ago: http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/view … hp?id=1147
Last edited by Peter Forster (2009-06-19 17:29:35)
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