The English suffix "-ard" (as in "drunkard", "laggard", "braggard", and "sluggard") is used to make adjectives into deprecating nouns.

"He's drunk" is just a description.
"He's a drunkard" is a moral judgment that finds the subject lacking.

The same process turned "he's wise" into "he's a wizard".

"Wizard" was the medieval equivalent of "smartass".

NEW: Hackers are infecting players of "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2" with a self-spreading malware worm.

It appears the worm is spreading inside game lobbies where there's at least a player whose computer is already infected with the malware.

The malware is on VT: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/cb000abed31b92b4f3f895a633ef0ffaf01a1be0dfc73619acf98c1605a5999d/detection

https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/27/hackers-are-infecting-call-of-duty-players-with-a-self-spreading-malware/