PETARD Definition & Meaning

petard

[ pi-tahrd ]

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noun

an explosive device formerly used in warfare to blow in a door or gate, form a breach in a wall, etc.
a kind of firecracker.
(initial capital letter) Also called Flying Dustbin. a British spigot mortar of World War II that fired a 40-pound (18-kilogram) finned bomb, designed to destroy pillboxes and other concrete obstacles.

petard

/ ��ɪˈ��ɑː�� /

noun

(formerly) a device containing explosives used to breach a wall, doors, etc
hoist with one's own petard
being the victim of one's own schemes
a type of explosive firework

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of petard¹

First recorded in 1590–1600; from Middle French, equivalent to pet(er) “to break wind” (derivative of pet, from Latin ��ŧ�徱�ٳܳ� “a breaking wind,” originally neuter of past participle of ��ŧ�� “to break wind”) + -ard noun suffix; -ard

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of petard¹

C16: from French: firework, from ��é�ٱ�� to break wind, from Latin ��ŧ��

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Idioms and Phrases

hoist by / with one's own petard, hurt, ruined, or destroyed by the very device or plot one had intended for another.

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AI companies just been hoisted with their own petard?

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As the accidental spokesperson for politically conscious casting, he’d rather not be hoisted on his own petard.

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On the other hand, I was happily hoist by my own obsessive petard by a passing reference to a “dirty martini.”

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A political party hoisted, as the saying goes, on its own petard.

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But she was hoisted by her own homophonous petard.

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