bastard
Plural: bastards
Noun
- A person born of parents not married to each other.
- insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous
- the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents
- 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"
- 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).
- A contemptible, inconsiderate, overly or arrogantly rude or spiteful person.
- A man, a fellow, a male friend.
- A suffering person deemed deserving of compassion.
- A child who does not know its father.
- Something extremely difficult or unpleasant to deal with.
- A variation that is not genuine; something irregular or inferior or of dubious origin, fake or counterfeit.
- A bastard file.
- A kind of sweet wine.
- 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.
- A Eurosceptic Conservative MP, especially in the government of John Major.
Adjective Satellite
- fraudulent; having a misleading appearance
Adj
- 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).
- Of abnormal, irregular or otherwise inferior qualities (size, shape etc).
- Spurious, lacking authenticity: counterfeit, fake.
- Of abnormal, irregular or otherwise inferior qualities (size, shape etc).
- Imperfect; not spoken or written well or in the classical style; broken.
- 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.
- Very unpleasant.
- Abbreviated, as the half title in a page preceding the full title page of a book.
- Consisting of one predominant color blended with small amounts of complementary color; used to replicate natural light because of their warmer appearance.
Intj
- Exclamation of strong dismay or strong sense of being upset.
Verb
- To bastardize.
Examples
- a bastard culverin
- a bastard musket
- A bastard orange gel produces predominantly orange light with undertones of blue.
- bastard gemsbok; bastard mahogany; bastard toadflax; bastard trumpeter
- Don't be such a bastard already!
- funny bastard
- Get over here, you old bastard!
- I assume that bastard won't be seen again.
- I’ve got a bastard headache.
- Life can be a real bastard.
- lucky bastard
- Poor bastard, I feel so sorry for him.
- Some bastard stole my car while I was helping an injured person.
- That word is a BASTARD, an awkward combination of letters that surprisingly works.
- The architecture was a kind of bastard, suggesting Gothic but not being true Gothic.
- These poor bastards started out life probably in bad or broken homes.
- You sick bastard!
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English bastard, bastarde, from Old English bastard (used as an epithet), 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.
Synonyms
asshole, bogus, by-blow, cocksucker, dickhead, fake, illegitimate, illegitimate child, love child, mongrel, mother fucker, motherfucker, phoney, phony, prick, shit, SOB, son of a bitch, whoreson, arsehole, ass, assbag, assbreath, assbucket, asscunt, assface, assfag, assfaggot, assfuck, assfucker, asshat, asshead, assmonkey, assmouth, assmunch, assmuncher, asstard, assweed, asswipe, bag of dicks, ball sack, bantling, bastard, bastardling, bastid, batchelor's son, berk, bitch, blackguard, blaggard, born in the vestry, buttface, butthead, buttlicker, buttmunch, buttmuncher, carrion, choad, chunk-blower, cock gobbler, cock-knocker, cockbag, cockbreath, cockface, cockfag, cockfuck, cockfucker, cockhead, cocklicker, cockmunch, cockmuncher, cocksack, cockshit, cocksuck, cockwad, cockwaffle, cockweasel, cockwipe, copy, cowson, crud, cullion, cum guzzler, cumbucket, cumrag, cumstain, cunt, cunt muncher, cuntard, cuntass, cuntbag, cuntbiscuit, cuntbitch, cuntbreath, cuntbucket, cuntface, cuntfuck, cuntfucker, cunthead, cuntlapper, cuntlicker, cuntmuffin, cuntrag, cuntshit, cuntstain, cuntsucker, cuntwad, cuntwaffle, cuntweasel, cuntweed, cuntwhacker, cuntwipe, degenerate, dick, dick munch, dick muncher, dickass, dickbag, dickbiscuit, dickbreath, dickbucket, dickface, dickfuck, dickfucker, dicklicker, dicknose, dicknut, dicksack, dickshit, dickstain, dickster, dicksucker, dicktard, dickwad, dickweasel, dickweed, dillweed, dipshit, dirtbag, dirthead, dirtwad, douche, douche boat, douche nozzle, douchebag, doucheburger, douchecanoe, douchelord, douchewad, douchewagon, earthworm, fag, faggot, faggotface, fribble, fruit of adultery, fuck, fuckbag, fuckball, fuckbucket, fuckchop, fucker, fuckface, fuckhead, fuckmitten, fuckmuffin, fucknose, fucknozzle, fuckoid, fuckrod, fuckshit, fuckskull, fuckstain, fuckster, fuckstick, fucktard, fucktrumpet, fuckwaffle, fuckweasel, fuckweed, fuckwit, git, haramzada, heel, hilding, hosebag, insect, jackass, jackoff, jagoff, jagweed, jerk, jerkball, jerko, jerkoff, jerkwad, jerkweed, jitbag, jizzbag, knob polisher, knob-gobbler, loser, louse, lowlife, mahfugga, mamzer, meanie, misbegotten, nark, natural child, nullius filius, outside child, paddock, paskudnyak, penishead, piece of crap, piece of garbage, piece of junk, piece of shit, piece of trash, piece of work, pig, pigfucker, pigwidgeon, pile of crap, pile of shit, pissface, pisspot, prickface, prickhead, prickwad, pukeball, pukestain, pussybreath, queef, raasclaat, ratfink, sack of shit, schmuck, scoundrel, scrub, scum, scumbag, scumbreath, scumbug, scumbutt, scumface, scumfuck, scumhead, scumhole, scumlord, scut, scuzz, scuzzball, scuzzbucket, scuzzoid, sewer rat, sheep-biter, shit bird, shitass, shitbag, shitball, shitbird, shitbreath, shitbucket, shitcock, shitcunt, shitdick, shiteater, shitehawk, shitface, shitfuck, shitfucker, shitgibbon, shitgoblin, shitguzzler, shithead, shitheap, shitheel, shithook, shitlicker, shitlord, shitmuncher, shitneck, shitnugget, shitnuts, shitpot, shitrag, shitsack, shitstain, shitwad, skate, slag, sleaze, sleazebag, sleazeball, sleazebucket, sleazehole, sleazewad, slimebucket, slimeface, slimehole, slimewad, slink, snotbag, snotball, snotface, snothead, snotwad, son of a gun, son of a whore, sourhead, squib, stinker, swine, tosser, tosspot, turdball, twattock, undesirable, vonce, wanker, wankpuffin, weasel, wet wipe, worm, yutz
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 10
bastard: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordbastard: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
bastard: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary