dastard

Etymology
From, most likely formed from , a base derived from. Compare 🇨🇬, dialectal 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) A malicious coward; a dishonorable sneak.

Translations

 * German:, Heimtücker

Adjective

 * 1) Meanly shrinking from danger, cowardly, dastardly.
 * 2) * 1590,, , Book III, Canto One, Stanza 22, in The Faerie Queene, Books Three and Four, edited by Dorothy Stephens, Hackett, 2006, p. 13,
 * Like dastard Curres, that having at a bay
 * The salvage beast embost in wearie chace,
 * Dare not adventure on the stubborne pray,
 * Ne byte before, but rome from place to place,
 * To get a snatch, when turned is his face.

Translations

 * German: ,

Verb

 * 1) To dastardize.
 * 2) * 1665,, , or the Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards, being the Sequel of The Indian Queen, Act II, Scene 1,
 * Would my short life had yet a shorter date! / I'm weary of this flesh which holds us here, / And dastards manly souls with hope and fear; / These heats and colds still in our breast make war, / Agues and fevers all our passions are.