bastard
see also: Bastard
Etymology
Bastard
Proper noun
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see also: Bastard
Etymology
From Middle English bastard, bastarde, from Anglo-Norman bastard, Old French bastart, perhaps via Medieval Latin bastardus, of obscure origin.
Possibly from Frankish *bāst + Old French -ard, -art.
Alternatively, Old French bastart may have originated from the Old French term fils de bast, meaning a child conceived on an improvised bed (medieval saddles often doubled as beds while travelling).
Pronunciation Nounbastard
- (dated) A person who was born out of wedlock, and hence often considered an illegitimate descendant.
- Synonyms: love child, born in the vestry, illegitimate, Thesaurus:bastard
- 1965, The Big Valley:
- Jarrod: Who are you?
Heath: Your father’s bastard son.
- A mongrel biological cross between different breeds, groups or varieties.
- (vulgar, offensive or pejorative, usually, referring specifically to a man) A contemptible, inconsiderate, overly or arrogantly rude or spiteful person.
- Synonyms: son of a bitch, arsehole, asshole, Thesaurus:git, Thesaurus:jerk
- Some bastard stole my car while I was helping an injured person.
- You sick bastard!
- Don't be such a bastard already!
- I assume that bastard won't be seen again.
- 1997, South Park television program:
- “Oh my God, they killed Kenny!” “You bastards!”
- (endearing or humorous) A man, a fellow, a male friend.
- lucky bastard
- funny bastard
- Get over here, you old bastard!
- (often preceded by ‘poor’) A suffering person deemed deserving of compassion.
- Poor bastard, I feel so sorry for him.
- These poor bastards started out life probably in bad or broken homes.
- (informal) A child who does not know their father.
- (informal) Something extremely difficult or unpleasant to deal with.
- Life can be a real bastard.
- A variation that is not genuine; something irregular or inferior or of dubious origin, fake or counterfeit.
- The architecture was a kind of bastard, suggesting Gothic but not being true Gothic.
- 1622, Francis Bacon, Bacon's History of the Reign of King Henry VII, Cambridge University Press, published 1902, page 62:
- There were also made good and politic laws that parliament, against usury, which is the bastard use of money...
- A bastard file.
- A kind of sweet wine.
- c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act III, scene ii], page 72 ↗, column 2:
- […] we ſhall haue all the world drinke browne & white baſtard.
- A sword that is midway in length between a short-sword and a long sword; also bastard sword.
- An inferior quality of soft brown sugar, obtained from syrups that have been boiled several times.
- A large mould for straining sugar.
- A writing paper of a particular size.
- (UK, politics, pejorative) A Eurosceptic Conservative MP, especially in the government of John Major.
- legitimate
- French: bâtard, bâtarde
- German: Bastard, Bastardin, Bankert (dated), Kegel (archaic)
- Italian: bastardo, bastarda
- Portuguese: bastardo, bastarda
- Russian: ублю́док
- Spanish: bastardo, bastarda
- French: fils de pute, salopard, salaud, enfoiré
- German: Bastard, Mistkerl, Arsch, Hurensohn
- Italian: bastardo, figlio di puttana
- Portuguese: filho da mãe, sacana, filho da puta
- Russian: ублю́док
- Spanish: desgraciado, hijo de puta, cabrón (Central America), tipejo
bastard
- Of or like a bastard illegitimate human descendant.
- Of or like a bastard bad person.
- Of or like a mongrel, bastardized creature/cross.
- Of abnormal, irregular or otherwise inferior qualities (size, shape etc).
- a bastard musket
- a bastard culverin
- Spurious, lacking authenticity: counterfeit, fake.
- a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “(please specify the chapter name or sermon number). Of Self-conceit”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published 1830–1831, →OCLC ↗:
- that bastard self-love which is so vicious in itself, and productive of so many vices
- (of a language) Imperfect; not spoken or written well or in the classical style; broken.
- 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC ↗:
- Of what race could these people be? Their language was a bastard Arabic, and yet they were not Arabs; I was quite sure of that.
- Used in the vernacular name of a species to indicate that it is similar in some way to another species, often (but not always) one of another genus.
- (UK, Irish, vulgar) Very unpleasant.
- I’ve got a bastard headache.
- (printing) Abbreviated, as the half title in a page preceding the full title page of a book.
- (theater lighting) Consisting of one predominant color blended with small amounts of complementary color; used to replicate natural light because of their warmer appearance.
- A bastard orange gel produces predominantly orange light with undertones of blue.
- French: croisé
- Russian: нечистокровный
- French: simili
- French: faux
- (rare) Exclamation of strong dismay or strong sense of being upset.
- French: enculé, merde, bordel de merde, vingt dieux, rogntudju, scrogneugneu
- German: (Du) Bastard!
- Portuguese: bosta!, merda!
bastard (bastards, present participle bastarding; simple past and past participle bastarded)
- (obsolete) To bastardize.
- 1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, →OCLC ↗:
- After her husband's death she was matter of tragedy , having lived to see her brother beheaded , and her two sons deposed from the crown , bastarded in their blood
Bastard
Proper noun
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