-art
variant of -ard:
braggart.
-ard
suffix
indicating a person who does something, esp to excess, or is characterized by a certain quality braggart, drunkard, dullard
word origin
via old french from germanic -hard (literally: hardy, bold), the final element in many germanic masculine names, such as bernhard bernard, gerhart gerard, etc
-art
suffix
a variant of -ard
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