limpard

noun

limpard

noun

Etymology From limp + -ard.

1

Archaic One who limps; a cripple.

For most translators are, as Sir Thomas himself would have it, but sottish and doting fresh-water sophisters, gouty limpards, and a thousand worse things, for they turn the strong brews of their originals into thin vinegarish liquors.1928, Morris Bishop, A gallery of eccentrics:

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