bastard

ca-adj

bastard (feminine bastarda, masculine plural bastards, feminine plural bastardes)

bastarda (feminine)
bastards (masculine plural)
bastardes (feminine plural)


bastard

ca-noun

bastard m (plural bastards, feminine bastarda)


bastard

bastard, love child (person born to unmarried parents)

bastard, mongrel (biological cross between different breeds, groups or varieties)

bastard (nominative singular)
bastardi (nominative plural)
bastarda (genitive singular)
bastardů (genitive plural)
bastardovi (dative singular)
bastardu (dative singular)
bastardům (dative plural)
bastarda (accusative singular)
bastardy (accusative plural)
bastarde (singular vocative)
bastardi (plural vocative)
bastardovi (locative singular)
bastardu (locative singular)
bastardech (locative plural)
bastardem (instrumental singular)
bastardy (instrumental plural)


bastard

crossbreed (an organism produced by mating of individuals of different varieties or breeds)

mongrel (someone of mixed kind or uncertain origin, especially a dog)

(dated) bastard (person who was born out of wedlock)

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bastard c (singular definite bastarden, plural indefinite bastarder)

bastarden (definite singular)
bastarder (indefinite plural)
bastard (indefinite nominative singular)
bastarden (definite nominative singular)
bastarder (indefinite nominative plural)
bastarderne (definite nominative plural)
bastards (genitive indefinite singular)
bastardens (definite genitive singular)
bastarders (genitive indefinite plural)
bastardernes (definite genitive plural)

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bastard

Jarrod: Who are you?
Heath: Your father’s bastard son.

(dated) A person who was born out of wedlock, and hence often considered an illegitimate descendant.

A mongrel (biological cross between different breeds, groups or varieties).

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.

“Oh my God, they killed Kenny!” “You bastards!”

(vulgar, offensive or derogatory, usually referring specifically to a man) A contemptible, inconsiderate, overly or arrogantly rude or spiteful person.

lucky bastard

funny bastard

Get over here, you old bastard!

(endearing or humorous) A man, a fellow, a male friend.

Poor bastard, I feel so sorry for him.

These poor bastards started out life probably in bad or broken homes.

(often preceded by ‘poor’) A suffering person deemed deserving of compassion.

(informal) A child who does not know their father.

Life can be a real bastard.

(informal) Something extremely difficult or unpleasant to deal with.

The architecture was a kind of bastard, suggesting Gothic but not being true Gothic.

There were also made good and politic laws that parliament, against usury, which is the bastard use of money...

1622, Francis Bacon, Bacon's History of the Reign of King Henry VII, Cambridge University Press, published 1902, page 62:

A variation that is not genuine; something irregular or inferior or of dubious origin, fake or counterfeit.

[…] we ſhall haue all the world drinke browne & white baſtard.

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:

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.

If you are a politician, you make sure that you know all such references in case an interviewer suddenly asks, 'Are you one of the bastards in Mr Major's cabinet?'

2000, Peter Hobday, Managing the message, Allison & Busby:

While John Major managed to get the Maastricht Treaty through parliament, despite the efforts of the “bastards” in his cabinet, the 2001 Conservative General Election campaign was fought on entirely eurosceptic lines.

2011, Duncan Hall, A2 Government and Politics: Ideologies and Ideologies in Action, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 62:

In the UK, Conservative Maastricht rebels (the 'bastards') almost brought down Conservative Prime Minister John Major's government.

2014 September 23, Stanley Johnson, Stanley, I Resume: Further recollections of an exuberant life, Biteback Publishing, →ISBN:

One “bastard,” the Minister for Wales, John Redwood (who mounted an unsuccessful campaign to displace the Tory chief, John Major), was removed in a Cabinet reshuffle; but was his young successor William Hague any more reliable?

2014, Melvin J. Lasky, Profanity, Obscenity and the Media, Transaction Publishers, →ISBN:

But there is no doubt that the “bastards,” who had tormented so many Tory leaders over the years, had won. The longed-for break with “Europe” had finally come, but at the same price that Americans paid for Trump's takeover of the Republican Party.

2020 September 3, Ian Buruma, The Churchill Complex: The Rise and Fall of the Special Relationship from Winston and FDR to Trump and Johnson, Atlantic Books, →ISBN:

(UK, politics, derogatory) A Eurosceptic Conservative MP, especially in the government of John Major.

en-noun

bastard (countable and uncountable, plural bastards)

ولد لحرام

informal: child that does not know their father

kreng

informal: something extremely difficult or unpleasant

From Middle English bastard, bastarde, from Anglo-Norman bastard, Old French bastart (“illegitimate child”), perhaps via Medieval Latin bastardus, of obscure origin.
Possibly from Frankish *bāst (“marriage, relationship”) + Old French -ard, -art (pejorative suffix denoting a specific quality or condition). Frankish *bāst derives from a North Sea Germanic variety of Proto-Germanic *banstuz (“bond, connection, relationship, marriage with a second woman of lower status”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰendʰ- (“to tie, bind”) and is related to West Frisian boaste (“marriage, matrimony”), Middle Dutch bast (“lust, heat”), and more distantly to English boose (“cow-stall”). The term probably originally referred to a child from a polygynous marriage of heathen Germanic custom — a practice not sanctioned by the Christian churches.
Alternatively, Old French bastart may have originated from the Old French term fils de bast (“packsaddle son”), meaning a child conceived on an improvised bed (medieval saddles often doubled as beds while travelling). However chronology makes this difficult, as bastard is attested in Old French from 1089 (Middle Latin bastardus as early as 1010), yet Old French bast (modern French bât), though attested since 1130 with the meaning of "beast of burden", doesn't acquire the specific meaning of "packsaddle" until the 13c., making it too late to have given rise to the terms bastard and bastardus with this sense. The French Centre National de Ressources Textuelles et Lexicales supports the Germanic theory further above as being most likely.

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obscure


bastard

Of or like a bastard (illegitimate human descendant).

Of or like a mongrel, bastardized creature/cross.

that bastard self-love which is so vicious in itself, and productive of so many vices

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:

Of abnormal, irregular or otherwise inferior qualities (size, shape etc).

Spurious, lacking authenticity: counterfeit, fake.

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.

1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

(of a language) Imperfect; not spoken or written well or in the classical style; broken.

a bastard musket

a bastard culverin

bastard gemsbok; bastard mahogany; bastard toadflax; bastard trumpeter

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.

I’ve got a bastard headache.

(printing) Abbreviated, as the half title in a page preceding the full title page of a book.

A bastard orange gel produces predominantly orange light with undertones of blue.

(theater lighting) Consisting of one predominant color blended with small amounts of complementary color; used to replicate natural light because of their warmer appearance.

en-adj

bastard (comparative more bastard, superlative most bastard)

more bastard (comparative)
most bastard (superlative)

незаконнороден

of or like a bastard (illegitimate human descendant)

bastard

of or like a mongrel, bastardized creature/cross

ondermaats

of abnormal, irregular or otherwise inferior qualities (size, shape etc.)

подправен

spurious, lacking genuinity of authenticity

unk

obscure


bastard

Jack says, “Oh! Bastard! I’m hit!” That bullet had to have come in the busted back window and how it missed Johnnie to hit Jack I don’t know.

2001, Stephen King, “The Death of Jack Hamilton”, in Everything's Eventual, Simon and Schuster, published 2007, →ISBN, page 90:

“Yes, I’m hhhhowwwwwwcch!” she yelped as she stubbed her toe against the bedpost. “Shit, shit, fuck, bastard, shit, crap!”

2004, Cecelia Ahern, PS, I Love You, Hyperion, →ISBN, page 7:

“Isn’t she lovely?” Clem asks, hopefully rhetorically. “Oh, bastard. I’ve got to go—that’s my signal. […]”

2006, Emily Franklin, Love from London, Penguin, →ISBN, page 212:

(rare) Exclamation of strong dismay or strong sense of being upset.

obscure


bastard

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

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:

en-verb

bastard (third-person singular simple present bastards, present participle bastarding, simple past and past participle bastarded)

bastards (present singular third-person)
bastarding (participle present)
bastarded (participle past)
bastarded (past)

unk

obscure


bastard

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bastard m (genitive singular bastaird, nominative plural bastaird)

bastaird (genitive singular)
bastaird (nominative plural)
bastard (indefinite nominative singular)
bastaird (indefinite nominative plural)
a bhastaird (indefinite singular vocative)
a bhastarda (indefinite plural vocative)
bastaird (genitive indefinite singular)
bastard (genitive indefinite plural)
bastard (dative indefinite singular)
bastaird (dative indefinite plural)
an bastard (definite nominative singular)
na bastaird (definite nominative plural)
an bhastaird (definite genitive singular)
na mbastard (definite genitive plural)
leis an mbastard (dative definite singular)
don bhastard (dative definite singular)
leis na bastaird (dative definite plural)
bastard
bhastard
mbastard
bastairt (alternative)
bastart (alternative)

Borrowed from Middle English bastard, from Old French bastard.


bastard

an illegitimate child, especially a noble one; a bastard

a kind of fortified wine, often with spices added

(rare) a heretic or sinner; one separated from one's deity

(rare) a dog that isn't purebred; a mutt or mongrel

bastardes (plural)
bastarde (alternative)
basterd (alternative)
bastart (alternative)

English: bastard

Scots: bastart, bastert

From Anglo-Norman bastard; equivalent to bast (“illegitimacy”) + -ard.


bastard

coming not from wedlock, coming from bastardy; illegitimate

low-quality, inferior, imitation; of bad manufacture

(rare) made using or incorporating fortified wine

English: bastard

Scots: bastart, bastert

bastarde (alternative)
basterd (alternative)
bastart (alternative)


bastard

bastard m (plural bastars, feminine singular bastarde, feminine plural bastardes)

bastars (plural)
bastarde (feminine singular)
bastardes (feminine plural)
bastart (alternative)

From Old French bastard, from Late Latin bastardus.


bastard

bastard m (feminine singular bastarde, masculine plural bastars, feminine plural bastardes)

bastarde (feminine singular)
bastars (masculine plural)
bastardes (feminine plural)
bastart (alternative)

French: bâtard


bastard

Vos savez bien qe je sui de bas lin, [e]t sui bastars

12th Century, Unknown, Raoul de Cambrai:

You know well that I am of low birth, and I am a bastard

bastard (person conceived to unmarried parents)

(derogatory, usually vocative) bastard (insult)

fro-noun

bastard oblique singular, m (oblique plural bastarz or bastartz, nominative singular bastarz or bastartz, nominative plural bastard)

bastard oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
bastarz (oblique plural)
bastartz (oblique plural)
bastarz (nominative singular)
bastartz (nominative singular)
bastard (nominative plural)

From Medieval Latin bastardus, of Germanic origin, possibly Frankish.


bastard

bastard (conceived by unmarried parents)

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bastard m (oblique and nominative feminine singular bastarde)

bastarde (feminine nominative oblique singular)
bastards (masculine singular subjective)
bastarde (feminine singular subjective)
bastard (neuter singular subjective)
bastard (masculine oblique singular)
bastarde (feminine oblique singular)
bastard (neuter oblique singular)
bastarde (oblique singular)
bastard (oblique singular)
bastard (masculine plural subjective)
bastardes (feminine plural subjective)
bastard (neuter plural subjective)
bastard (plural subjective)
bastards (masculine oblique plural)
bastardes (feminine oblique plural)
bastard (neuter oblique plural)
bastardes (oblique plural)
bastard (oblique plural)

French: bâtard

→ Galician: bastardo

→ Middle Dutch: bastaert

desctree

Dutch: bastaard, basterd (archaic)
→ Indonesian: bastar
→? Saramaccan: bása
→? Sranan Tongo: basra

→ Middle English: bastard, bastarde, basterd, bastart
English: bastard
Scots: bastart, bastert


bastard

(literary) bastard (person who was born out of wedlock, and hence often considered an illegitimate descendant)

bastard (nominative singular)
bastardzi (nominative plural)
bastardy (derogatory nominative plural)
bastarda (genitive singular)
bastardów (genitive plural)
bastardowi (dative singular)
bastardom (dative plural)
bastarda (accusative singular)
bastardów (accusative plural)
bastardem (instrumental singular)
bastardami (instrumental plural)
bastardzie (locative singular)
bastardach (locative plural)
bastardzie (singular vocative)
bastardzi (plural vocative)

Borrowed from German Bastard or Italian bastardo, from Late Latin bastardus, from Frankish, possibly through Old French bastardus.


bastard

(biology, of animals or plants) bastard, crossbreed, hybrid, mongrel (organism produced by mating of individuals of different varieties or breeds)

bastard (nominative singular)
bastardy (nominative plural)
bastarda (genitive singular)
bastardów (genitive plural)
bastardowi (dative singular)
bastardom (dative plural)
bastarda (accusative singular)
bastardy (accusative plural)
bastardem (instrumental singular)
bastardami (instrumental plural)
bastardzie (locative singular)
bastardach (locative plural)
bastardzie (singular vocative)
bastardy (plural vocative)


bastard

bastarzi (plural)
bastard (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
bastardul (accusative definite nominative singular)
bastarzi (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
bastarzii (accusative definite nominative plural)
bastard (indefinite singular)
bastardului (definite singular)
bastarzi (indefinite singular)
bastarzilor (definite plural)
bastardule (singular vocative)
bastarzilor (vocative)


bastard

a bastard (biological cross between different breeds, groups, or varieties)

(dated, derogatory) a bastard (person born out of wedlock)

bastard (indefinite nominative singular)
bastards (genitive indefinite singular)
bastarden (definite nominative singular)
bastardens (definite genitive singular)
bastarder (indefinite nominative plural)
bastarders (genitive indefinite plural)
bastarderna (definite nominative plural)
bastardernas (definite genitive plural)