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dastard (n.)
mid-15c., "one who is lazy or dull;" an English formation on a French model, probably from
*dast
, "dazed," past participle of
dasen
"to daze" (see
daze
(v.)) + deprecatory suffix
-ard
. Meaning "one who shirks from danger" is late 15c.