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7 letters · 9 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a despicable coward
adjective despicably cowardly; - F.D. Roosevelt
originFrom Middle English dastard (“a dullard”), most likely formed from *dast, a base derived from Old Norse dæstr (“exhausted, breathless”) + -ard. Compare Icelandic dasaður (“exhausted”), dialectal Swedish däst (“weary”), Middle Dutch dasaert, daasaardt (“a fool”), English dazed (“stupefied”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0