-ard or -artsuff. 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.]American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.-ard or -artsuffix forming nounsindicating 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]Collins English Dictionary ? Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014-ard or -art, a suffix forming nouns that denote persons who regularly engage in an activity, or who are characterized in a certain way, as indicated by the stem; now usu. pejorative: coward; dullard; drunkard; wizard.[Middle English