Blackguard, a name originally applied to the lowest kitchen servants from the dirty work they had to do.
Bombast, originally cotton-wadding, affected language.
Boor, originally a peasant or tiller of the soil. In South Africa a farmer is called a boer.
Brat meant originally a rag or clout, especially a child’s bib or apron; hence, in contempt, a child. Mandeville speaks of ‘Abraham’s brats.’
Carriage once meant baggage. Acts, xxi. 15: ‘And after those days we took up our carriages, and went up to Jerusalem.’
Censure once meant opinion or judgment. Shakspeare, As You Like It, IV. i. 7: ‘Betray themselves to every modern censure.’
Charity, once love, now almsgiving. 1 Cor. xiii. 3: ‘And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.’
Cheat originally meant to seize upon anything which was escheated or forfeited.
Churl, a countryman or farmer.
Conceit, originally a thought or notion. ‘Dan Chaucer was a conceited clerk’—that is, a learned man full of new inventions or thoughts (conceits).