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-tards

-tards is the plural of -tard.

Meaning of -tard

Suffix

-tard (noun-forming suffix, plural -tards)

  1. (derogatory, offensive, slang, vulgar) 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

Questions about -tards

What is -tards the plural of?
-tards is the plural of -tard.

Words near -tards in the dictionary

  1. -tan
  2. -tant
  3. -taph
  4. -tard
  5. -tarded
  6. -tards
  7. -tastic
  8. -taur
  9. -taxel
  10. -teen
  11. -tegravir

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