The English suffix "-ard" (as in "drunkard", "laggard", "braggard", and "sluggard") is used to make adjectives into deprecating nouns.
"He's drunk" is just a description.
"He's a drunkard" is a moral judgment that finds the subject lacking.
The same process turned "he's wise" into "he's a wizard".
"Wizard" was the medieval equivalent of "smartass".
@BrianBinh Isaac Asimov actually had an introductory essay to a Wizards anthology where he wrote about this *at length*
@tzarfenix @BrianBinh
Wiz-ard
Cow-ard
Bole-ard
.....?
Hack-ard
Shit-ard
Whor-ard
Politi-ard
Dumb-ard
Skimp-ard
...?
@lucifargundam @tzarfenix @BrianBinh
Lard
Blizzard
Liddiard
Lingard
Langard
Willard
Garrard
Board
Scabbard
Shepard
Toward
Allard
Hard
Guard
Broward
Forward
Howard
Millard
Soward
Seward
Steward
Menard
Mustard
Dillard
Gillard
Hilliard
Wedard
Windward
This isn't working! Am I doing it wrong?
@goose @lucifargundam @BrianBinh Steward - this guy just makes too much stew
@tzarfenix @goose @BrianBinh puddard
He makes too much pudding. If you don't eat your meat, you can't have any pudding! How can you have your pudding if you don't eat your meat?!
