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What (who) is BASTARD - definition
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Basstard; Bastard (disambiguation); Bastard (film); Bastard (album)
bastard
(bastards)
1.
Bastard is an insulting word which some people use about a person, especially a man, who has behaved very badly. (INFORMAL, VERY RUDE)
N-COUNT [disapproval]
2.
A bastard is a person whose parents were not married to each other at the time that he or she was born. This use could cause offence. (OLD-FASHIONED)
N-COUNT: oft N n
bastard
['b?:st?d, 'bast-]
¦ noun
1. archaic or derogatory an illegitimate person.
2. informal an unpleasant or despicable person.
Brit. a person of a specified kind: you lucky bastard!
a difficult or awkward situation or device.
¦ adjective
1. archaic or derogatory illegitimate.
2. no longer in its pure or original form.
Derivatives
bastardy noun
Word History
The word bastard came into English from Old French in the medieval period and derives from medieval Latin bastardus, which probably came from bastum 'packsaddle'. The reason for such a dramatic change of meaning is uncertain: however, there could be a parallel in the Old French term for an illegitimate child, fils de bast, literally 'packsaddle son', i.e. the son of a mule driver who had a brief sexual encounter with a woman, using a packsaddle for a pillow, and was gone by morning.
Bastard
·vt To Bastardize.
II. Bastard ·noun A sweet Spanish wine like muscadel in flavor.
III. Bastard ·noun A large size of mold, in which sugar is drained.
IV. Bastard ·noun A writing paper of a particular size. ·see Paper.
V. Bastard ·noun Of an unusual make or proportion; as, a bastard musket; a bastard culverin.
VI. Bastard ·adj Begotten and born out of lawful matrimony; illegitimate. ·see Bastard, ·noun, note.
VII. Bastard ·noun Abbreviated, as the half title in a page preceding the full title page of a book.
VIII. Bastard ·noun An inferior quality of soft brown sugar, obtained from the sirups that / already had several boilings.
IX. Bastard ·noun A "natural" child; a child begotten and born out of wedlock; an illegitimate child; one born of an illicit union.
X. Bastard ·noun Lacking in genuineness; spurious; false; adulterate;
- applied to things which resemble those which are genuine, but are really not so.
Examples of use of BASTARD
1. You could tell a commie bastard from a fascist bastard.
2. If someone is slow on the assault course, you‘d get people shouting ‘Come on you fat bastard, come on you ginger bastard, come on you black bastard‘. "In my experience, when you put on the uniform then all differences disappear.
3. Then Lehman CEO Dick Fuld called, that nervy bastard.
4. "David Mellor, the thinking woman‘s fat, ugly bastard.
5. You always were a bastard, even at Goldman, Dick hissed.