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Bastard Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Bastard?
[n] derogatory term for a variation that is not genuine; something irregular or inferior or of dubious origin; "the architecture was a kind of bastard suggesting Gothic but not true Gothic"
[n] (obscene) insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous [n] the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents [adj] fraudulent; having a misleading appearance [adj] born out of wedlock; "the dominions of both rulers passed away to their spurious or doubtful offspring"- E.A.Freeman Synonyms | Synonyms for Bastard: asshole | bastardly | bogus | by-blow | cocksucker | counterfeit | dickhead | fake | illegitimate | illegitimate | illegitimate child | imitative | love child | misbegot | misbegotten | mongrel | mother fucker | motherfucker | phoney | phony | prick | shit | SOB | son of a bitch | spurious | whoreson Related Terms | Find terms related to Bastard: affected | apocryphal | artificial | assumed | bantling | bar sinister | baseborn | bastard child | bastardy | bird | blackguard | bogus | brummagem | bugger | by-blow | cat | chap | character | colorable | colored | counterfeit | counterfeited | creep | criminal | cross | crossbred | crossbreed | devil | distorted | dressed up | duck | dummy | embellished | embroidered | enfant terrible | ersatz | evildoer | factitious | fake | faked | false | falsified | fart | fatherless | feigned | feller | fellow | fictitious | fictive | garbled | guy | half blood | half-breed | heel | hood | hooligan | illegitimacy | illegitimate | illegitimate child | imitation | jasper | jerk | joker | junky | knave | lad | limb | louse | love child | lowlife | make-believe | malefactor | man-made | meanie | misbegotten | mischief | miscreant | miscreated | mock | mongrel | mother | mule | natural | offender | perverted | phony | pill | pinchbeck | pretended | pseudo | put-on | quasi | queer | rapscallion | rascal | rat | reprobate | rogue | scalawag | scoundrel | self-styled | sham | shit | shithead | shitheel | shoddy | simulated | sinner | SOB | so-called | soi-disant | spurious | stinkard | stinker | stud | supposititious | synthetic | tin | tinsel | titivated | turd | twisted | unauthentic | ungenuine | unnatural | unreal | warped See Also | disagreeable person | issue | offspring | progeny | unpleasant person | variation Bastard In Webster's Dictionary \Bas"tard\, n. [OF. bastard, bastart, F. b?tard, prob.
fr. OF. bast, F. b?t, a packsaddle used as a bed by the
muleteers (fr. LL. bastum) + -ard. OF. fils de bast son of
the packsaddle; as the muleteers were accustomed to use their
saddles for beds in the inns. See Cervantes, ``Don Quixote,''
chap. 16; and cf.G. bankert, fr. bank bench.]
1. A ``natural'' child; a child begotten and born out of
wedlock; an illegitimate child; one born of an illicit
union.
Note: By the civil and canon laws, and by the laws of many of
the United States, a bastard becomes a legitimate child
by the intermarriage of the parents at any subsequent
time. But by those of England, and of some states of
the United States, a child, to be legitimate, must at
least be born after the lawful marriage. --Kent.
Blackstone.
2. (Sugar Refining)
(a) An inferior quality of soft brown sugar, obtained from
the sirups that ? already had several boilings.
(b) A large size of mold, in which sugar is drained.
3. A sweet Spanish wine like muscadel in flavor.
Brown bastard is your only drink. --Shak.
4. A writing paper of a particular size. See {Paper}.
\Bas"tard\, a. 1. Begotten and born out of lawful matrimony; illegitimate. See {Bastard}, n., note. 2. Lacking in genuineness; spurious; false; adulterate; -- applied to things which resemble those which are genuine, but are really not so. That bastard self-love which is so vicious in itself, and productive of so many vices. --Barrow. 3. Of an unusual make or proportion; as, a bastard musket; a bastard culverin. [Obs.] 4. (Print.) Abbreviated, as the half title in a page preceding the full title page of a book. {Bastard ashlar} (Arch.), stones for ashlar work, roughly squared at the quarry. {Bastard file}, a file intermediate between the coarsest and the second cut. {Bastard type} (Print.), type having the face of a larger or a smaller size than the body; e.g., a nonpareil face on a brevier body. {Bastard wing} (Zo["o]l.), three to five quill feathers on a small joint corresponding to the thumb in some mam malia; the alula. \Bas"tard\, v. t. To bastardize. [Obs.] --Bacon. |
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