LIMPARD NOUN a contemptuous name for a person who limps, a cripple ...1653 obs. ETYMOLOGY from limp (vb. to walk lamely) + -ard FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1653 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...did I ill? No, Friar Ihon, (said Gymnast,) no by all the devils that are, no: So (said the Monk) do I attest these same devils so long as they last, or rather vertue G—, what could that gowtie Limpard have done with so fine a dog? by the body of G—he is better pleased, when one presents him with a good yoke of oxen..." From: The first book of the works of Mr. Francis Rabelais - Francois Rabelais Translated by Thomas Urquhart
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