-ard , -art. The termination of many English words; as, coward, reynard, drunkard, mostly from the French, in which language this ending is of
German origin, being orig. the same word as
English hard. It usually has the sense of
one who has to a high or excessive degree the quality expressed by the root; as, braggart, sluggard.
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