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What (who) is BASTARDIZING - definition
Bastardizing
·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of Bastardize.
bastard
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Basstard; Bastard (disambiguation); Bastard (film); Bastard (album)
(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
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Basstard; Bastard (disambiguation); Bastard (film); Bastard (album)
['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.
