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† ˈhaskard Obs.
Also -erd.
[Of uncertain derivation; the suffix as in bast-ard, etc.: its locality is opposed to its being a derivative of the northern hask a.]
A man of low degree, a base or vulgar fellow. Also attrib.
1491Caxton Vitas Patr. (W. de W. 1495) i. cxl. 152 b/1 As..he came out of the hous of a comyn woman He mette wyth a lewde haskarde, whyche for to doo the sayd synne of lechery went to the hous. 1519W. Horman Vulg. 31 Declaryng a very folysshe and an haskard felowe vnder the person of Thersyte. 1523Skelton Garl. Laurel 606 They be haskardis & rebawdis. 1569Newton Cicero's Olde Age 14 Priuate persons and haskerds of low degree. 1574Withals Dict. 60/2 A haskarde, or of lowe degree, proletarius.
Hence † ˈhaskardly a., vulgar, low, base. † ˈhaskardy, baseness; haskards collectively.
1576Newton Lemnie's Complex. (1633) 208 Some haskerdly peizaunts, and rascall persons. 1575Laneham Let. (1871) 4 Ouerthroun at last by Berthreds Hascardy. 1577–87Holinshed Chron. (1807–8) III. 81 Treason and haskardie in thus leaving their camp at the very point of fight. |