So what is a guard?
this post was submitted on 03 Mar 2026
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Too protective/remarkably protective? I made this up, but if usage started with peasantry or something it kind of makes sense.
How about regard? Even tho it's also a verb.
You're too reg? Sounds like it could've been gen z slang in another timeline, like mid.
...omg I'm mid!
goonard? looksarding?
Mine is Blowh
Jean-Luc Pic
So someone e.g. named Leonard Thiel that embodies themselves too much is a Leotard?
Doesn't work in German (also a Germanic language like English):
- Mustard: Senf / Mostrich
- Bastard: Bastard
- Wizard: Zauberer
- Coward: Feigling
- Drunkard: Säufer / Trunkenbold
It's thought to be a misunderstanding between French speakers and German surnames. Francophones presumed it was a trade suffix the way in English someone who bakes is a baker. English is a salad of confusion between these two.
I’ve heard that the term “son of a gun” has a similar origin.
See, when a sailing vessel would visit port all the whores would row out to meet it. They’d be hauled into the gun ports and… ply their wares.
Since they didn’t know who in the gun crew was the father, their boys were “sons of a gun”
What about retard? SCNR
Also
- dull
- boll
- mall
- stand
So Richard is too rich? Is that why he's a Dick?
This reminds me of a card-based cooking game, Cookard... which does, in fact, contain an overabundance of cooking.
"What are we going to call this fish? It's got... so much pilch... maybe a bit too much if I'm honest"
What a smartard.