-ard

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-ard or -art,

1. suffix.  -ard or -art is attached to some verbs and nouns to form nouns that refer to persons who regularly do an activity, or who are characterized in a certain way, as indicated by the stem: dullard (= one who is dull);
   drunkard (= one who is drunk).

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-ard, 

1. a suffix forming nouns that denote persons who regularly engage in an activity, or who are characterized in a certain way, as indicated by the stem;
   now usually pejorative:
   coward;
   drunkard;
   wizard.

Also, -art. 

• Old French, probably extracted from Frankish compound personal names; compare Old High German Adalhart (French Alard), Bernhart (French Bernard), with 2d element -hart literally, strong, hardy, hard (cognate with Old English -heard in names), often merely as intensifier of quality denoted in 1st element.
• Middle English

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-ard, -art suffix:forming_nouns

1. indicating a person who does something, esp to excess, or is characterized by a certain quality: braggart, drunkard, dullard

Etymology: via Old French from Germanic -hard (literally: hardy, bold), the final element in many Germanic masculine names, such as Bernhard Bernard, Gerhart Gerard, etc