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-ard or -art

suff.

One that habitually or excessively is in a specified condition or performs a specified action: drunkard.

[Middle English, from Old French, of Germanic origin; see kar- in Indo-European roots.]

-ard, -art

suffix forming nouns

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

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

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