the scullions and lower menials of a court, or of a nobleman's household, who, in a removal from one residence to another, had charge of the kitchen utensils, and being smutted by them, were jocularly called the "black guard"; also, the servants and hangers-on of an army.-the criminals and vagrants or vagabonds of a town or community, collectively.-a person of stained or low character, esp. one who uses scurrilous language, or treats others with foul abuse; a scoundrel; a rough.-a vagrant; a bootblack; a gamin.-to revile or abuse in scurrilous language.-scurrilous; abusive; low; worthless; vicious; as, blackguard language.