'The dastard!' [Simpsons]

I’m pretty sure Homer says this in the episode about Jebediah Springfield, after Lisa says “He even tried to kill George Washington!”

Is “dastard” a real word? It sounds like a combination of “bastard” and “dastardly” - and it sounds really cool.

My dictionary says it means “A base coward; a sneak.”

People should use that word more often.

Jebediah Springfield: “A noble spirt embiggens the smallest man.”

Excellent. Well, I’m certainly going to use it more often.

It’s a perfectly promulent word.

I think that’s cromulent, unless my ears are wrong which happens often.

Wow, you are so learn-ed!

Learned, Pepe…it’s pronounced learned.

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Jebediah Springfield: “A noble spirt embiggens the smallest man.”
Did ol’ Jeb explain the dynamics of “spirts”?

Yes

Yes it is.

Thank You

oh bollocks, I am sure you will decipher it :slight_smile:

It’s been used more than once, including on a cover of Newsweekly from Krusty Gets Busted: “Rhymes with Dastard”, a parody of a real-life cover picture of Leona “Rhymes with Rich” Helmsley.