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Laggard vs Blaggard - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between laggard and blaggard

is that laggard is one who lags behind and takes more time than is necessary while blaggard is (dated) a scoundrel; an unprincipled contemptible person; an untrustworthy person usually, only used to refer to a male person.

As an adjective laggard

is hanging back; loitering.

laggard

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Hanging back; loitering.
  • * 1752 , Francis Gentleman and Ben Jonson, Sejanus, A Tragedy , act 5, scene 1, page 54–55:
    • But come let's wing our Steps with utmost Speed,
    The swiftest Haste is laggard to the Deed.
  • * 1931 , William Faulkner, Sanctuary , Vintage 1993, p. 66:
    • Between blinks Tommy saw Temple in the path, her body slender and motionless for a moment as though waiting for some laggard part to catch up.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who lags behind and takes more time than is necessary.

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    * See also

    blaggard

    English

    Alternative forms

    * blackguard

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (dated) A scoundrel; an unprincipled contemptible person; an untrustworthy person. Usually, only used to refer to a male person.
  • (archaic) A man who uses foul language in front of a woman, typically a woman of high standing in society.
  • * 2006, Jan Freeman, 'Blaggards' of the year – Boston Globe
    • "Arrr, keelhaul the blaggards !" wrote Ty Burr in the Globe last summer, pronouncing sentence on the malefactors who brought us the second "Pirates of the Caribbean" movie.