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BrianBinh@dice.camp ("Brian Bình") wrote:
The English suffix "-ard" (as in "drunkard", "laggard", "braggard", and "sluggard") is used to make adjectives into deprecating nouns.
"He's drunk" is just a description.
"He's a drunkard" is a moral judgment that finds the subject lacking.The same process turned "he's wise" into "he's a wizard".
"Wizard" was the medieval equivalent of "smartass".