I'm thinking of a word that rhymes with 'hard'

I'm thinking of a word that rhymes with 'hard'

Sounds fishy to me.

No it's not pilchard

I wasn't aware of pilchards. Undoubtedly my guess is still wrong, but it's actually a very birdlike fish. Its common name is the sea robin.

I'm not a poet
And don't I know it
It shouldn't be so hard
One of my ancestors was a...

Welcome starbox. My first meal in Paris started with a duck's stony stomach! Not quite what I though I was ordering!

Might I hoist myself upon it?

I am all broken up over this.

#4 That's interesting, I thought pilchards (tinned, served on toast) were a worldwide delicacy! No, it's not gurnard
#5 Nor a bard
# Nor a (canard?)
#7 Nor a petard

Alpha: bard, canard, gurnard, petard, pilchard

#9 No - the muscular stomach pouch filled with grit.

An open area surrounded by walls or buildings?

#9 No, it's not a gizzard (this sure is an educational game! I've just been researching bird anatomy!)
Nor a yard

Alpha: bard, (canard), gizzard, gurnard, petard, pilchard, yard

O Canada we stand on this for thee!

No, it's not guard

Alpha: bard, (canard), gizzard, guard, gurnard, petard, pilchard, yard

I'm still all broken up over this.

No it's not shard

Alpha: bard, canard, gizzard, guard, gurnard, petard, pilchard, yard

My brain isn't working at full speed.

No, it's not retard.

Alpha: bard, canard, gizzard, guard, gurnard, petard, pilchard, retard, yard.

Is it all in the rendering?

Is it a vegetable that is sometimes "Swiss"?

#No it's not lard
#Nor chard

(It's 2 syllables)
Alpha: bard, canard, chard, gizzard, guard, gurnard, lard, petard, pilchard, retard, yard

Well, I'll never stop trying to guess the answer.

You're such a diehard!

Alpha: bard, canard, chard, diehard gizzard, guard, gurnard, lard, petard, pilchard, retard, yard

Tsk, tsk, tsk, Counselor. You're in trouble now.

Maybe it is someone who is not very clever?

Or a release from the military.

#23 Sorry, I'm stumped! Give me another clue!
#24 No it's not dullard, or dotard or backward
#25 nor (debarred?)

Alpha: backward, bard, canard, chard, debarred, diehard, dotard, dullard gizzard, guard, gurnard, lard, petard, pilchard, retard, yard

NB When I came up with canard, I really thought we were on to something...

My attorney did something unethical and illegal. His punishment.

#27 Disbarred?

#25> Actually, now I'm feeling like the dullard... I think I was going for "discharged" but god only knows why since it doesn't really rhyme with "hard" unless you squint. It's skoodin froody all over again. Okay, replacement guess:

Is it a scoundrel or villain, in an English sort of way?

#29 No, it's neither dastard nor bastard!

Alpha: backward, bard, bastard, canard, chard, dastard, debarred, diehard, dotard, dullard gizzard, guard, gurnard, lard, petard, pilchard, retard, yard

#28 you got it star.

#29> I was thinking more of one of those words you folks pronounce completely different than you spell it. :D

#29 Oh, blackguard? Talking of English terms for things put me in mind of a German friend I used to have - her English was brilliant as she spent all her time reading the classics, but on one of her trips over here she asked me sadly "When the taxi driver took the wrong route and I called him a nincompoop, why did he laugh at me?" !! Also of an American penpal to whom I wrote when my ex and I were getting divorced, saying he was seeing a solicitor - and received back a torrent of sympathy from someone who thought he was visiting a courtesan!

(And yet, when you put a "No Soliciting" sign on your door here it means yet a third thing.)

I misread #31 to be a clue at first. So I'm making it one:

In school, gold stars are often given out as a _____.

Like, is it bearded?

No, it's not reward

To re-iterate clue given earlier, canard wasn't so far off the mark

Alpha: backward, bard, bastard, canard, chard, dastard, debarred, diehard, dotard, dullard gizzard, guard, gurnard, lard, petard, pilchard, retard, reward, yard

Starbpx, you are doing brilliantly. I hold you in high esteem.

Perhaps I have a green head, or perhaps I perform autopsies.

#37 Thankyou for telling me I'm 'wizard', but that's not it.
#38 YES!! It's a MALLARD. Not sure about the autopsies - nothing to do with 'graveyard'?

You didn't get mine at all, Starbox

On my side of the pond there is a very popular and long-running TV show called NCIS. One the featured characters is Dr. Donald Mallard who is a pathologist and who does at least one autopsy in every episode. Of course, his nickname is "Ducky."

Do I now have to start the next round? It's been a few years since I've played Crambo.

Oh I do apologize Tid; I'm guessing yours was also 'wizard'?
Kathi; I've checked out NCIS and apparently it is on TV over here but I've never seen it. Next round down to you.

42

Nope! Mine was Shakespearean - "bearded like the pard"

#37 was "regard"