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dastard
mid-15c., "one who is lazy or dull;" an English formation on a French model, probably from
*dast
, "dazed," pp. of
dasen
"to daze" + (see
daze
) + deprecatory suffix
-ard
. Meaning "one who shirks from danger" is late 15c.
