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A suffix used to form nouns in depreciatory senses (drunkard; sluggard), or nouns in other senses (bollard; Spaniard; wizard).
It usually has the sense of one who has to a high or excessive degree the quality expressed by the root; as, braggart, sluggard.
Origin: Middle English & Old French from German -hard 'hard, hardy'
(06 Feb 2009)
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