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Dastard vs Dastars - What's the difference?

dastard | dastars |

As nouns the difference between dastard and dastars

is that dastard is a malicious coward; a dishonorable sneak while dastars is .

As an adjective dastard

is meanly shrinking from danger, cowardly, dastardly.

As a verb dastard

is to dastardize.

dastard

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A malicious coward; a dishonorable sneak.
  • * Shakespeare
    • You are all recreants and dastards , and delight to live in slavery to the nobility.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • meanly shrinking from danger, cowardly, dastardly
  • * 1843 , '', book 3, ch. IV, ''Happy
    • Observe, too, that this is all a modern affair; belongs not to the old heroic times, but to these dastard new times. ‘Happiness our being’s end and aim’ is at bottom, if we will count well, not yet two centuries old in the world.

    References

    *
    The Free Dictionary: Dastard

    Derived terms

    * dastardly * dastardness

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To dastardize.
    • (Dryden)

    dastars

    English

    Noun

    (head)