"bastardess" meaning in English

See bastardess in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: bastardesses [plural]
Etymology: From bastard + -ess, since 1843. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|bastard|ess}} bastard + -ess Head templates: {{en-noun}} bastardess (plural bastardesses)
  1. (dated, rare) A woman who was born out of wedlock, and hence often considered an illegitimate descendant. Tags: dated, rare
    Sense id: en-bastardess-en-noun-vSoVhzJE Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ess, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 82 18 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ess: 79 21 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 82 18 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 82 18
  2. (vulgar, offensive or derogatory, referring specifically to a woman) A contemptible, inconsiderate, overly or arrogantly rude or spiteful woman. Tags: derogatory, offensive, vulgar
    Sense id: en-bastardess-en-noun-UFfkLf83

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "bastard",
        "3": "ess"
      },
      "expansion": "bastard + -ess",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From bastard + -ess, since 1843.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bastardesses",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "bastardess (plural bastardesses)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "82 18",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "79 21",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ess",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "82 18",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "82 18",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1843, David Aaron De Sola, Morris Jacob Raphall, Eighteen Treatises from the Mishna, page 217:",
          "text": "[…]when a bastard marries a bastardess, and he has a legitimate Israelite brother :–all these marriages are indeed legal[…]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A woman who was born out of wedlock, and hence often considered an illegitimate descendant."
      ],
      "id": "en-bastardess-en-noun-vSoVhzJE",
      "links": [
        [
          "out of wedlock",
          "out of wedlock"
        ],
        [
          "illegitimate",
          "illegitimate"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dated, rare) A woman who was born out of wedlock, and hence often considered an illegitimate descendant."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated",
        "rare"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2019, Christina Bauer, My Necromancer Romance, page 371:",
          "text": "A bastardess like me would never be allowed past the door.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A contemptible, inconsiderate, overly or arrogantly rude or spiteful woman."
      ],
      "id": "en-bastardess-en-noun-UFfkLf83",
      "links": [
        [
          "vulgar",
          "vulgar"
        ],
        [
          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
        ],
        [
          "contemptible",
          "contemptible"
        ],
        [
          "inconsiderate",
          "inconsiderate"
        ],
        [
          "arrogantly",
          "arrogantly"
        ],
        [
          "rude",
          "rude"
        ],
        [
          "spiteful",
          "spiteful"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(vulgar, offensive or derogatory, referring specifically to a woman) A contemptible, inconsiderate, overly or arrogantly rude or spiteful woman."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "referring specifically to a woman"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "derogatory",
        "offensive",
        "vulgar"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "bastardess"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms suffixed with -ess",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "bastard",
        "3": "ess"
      },
      "expansion": "bastard + -ess",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From bastard + -ess, since 1843.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bastardesses",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "bastardess (plural bastardesses)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English dated terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with rare senses"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1843, David Aaron De Sola, Morris Jacob Raphall, Eighteen Treatises from the Mishna, page 217:",
          "text": "[…]when a bastard marries a bastardess, and he has a legitimate Israelite brother :–all these marriages are indeed legal[…]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A woman who was born out of wedlock, and hence often considered an illegitimate descendant."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "out of wedlock",
          "out of wedlock"
        ],
        [
          "illegitimate",
          "illegitimate"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dated, rare) A woman who was born out of wedlock, and hence often considered an illegitimate descendant."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated",
        "rare"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English derogatory terms",
        "English offensive terms",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2019, Christina Bauer, My Necromancer Romance, page 371:",
          "text": "A bastardess like me would never be allowed past the door.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A contemptible, inconsiderate, overly or arrogantly rude or spiteful woman."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "vulgar",
          "vulgar"
        ],
        [
          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
        ],
        [
          "contemptible",
          "contemptible"
        ],
        [
          "inconsiderate",
          "inconsiderate"
        ],
        [
          "arrogantly",
          "arrogantly"
        ],
        [
          "rude",
          "rude"
        ],
        [
          "spiteful",
          "spiteful"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(vulgar, offensive or derogatory, referring specifically to a woman) A contemptible, inconsiderate, overly or arrogantly rude or spiteful woman."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "referring specifically to a woman"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "derogatory",
        "offensive",
        "vulgar"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "bastardess"
}

Download raw JSONL data for bastardess meaning in English (2.2kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (8a39820 and 4401a4c). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.