-tard
-tard suffix: used to form words conveying an attitude of contempt or doubt over the subject's intelligence.
Suffix
-tard (noun-forming suffix, plural -tards)
- Used to form words conveying an attitude of contempt or doubt over the subject's intelligence.
- The left-right parallels are obvious, too, in the puerile nicknames used by radio hosts and in the comment threads of blogs and articles, whether for each other (libtards, dumbocrats, repugnicans, repukes), for public figures (Dumbya, Slick Willie, Shillary, Michael Moron), or for the media...2012, Geoffrey Nunberg, Ascent of the A-word: Assholism, the First Sixty Years, page 188
- ' Shittard bollocking fuckcunts!' Harry Tattershall is a magnificent and venomous swearer: doing things with words that other people would require a snooker ball and a football sock to achieve.2013, David Mark, Original Skin
Forms of -tard
| plural | -tards |
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Origin of -tard
From retard.
Questions about -tard
- What does -tard mean?
- -tard means used to form words conveying an attitude of contempt or doubt over the subject's intelligence.
- What part of speech is -tard?
- -tard is a suffix.
Words near -tard in the dictionary
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