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Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: bastard /ˈbɑːstəd ˈbæs-/ n informal offensive an obnoxious or despicable person informal often jocular a person, esp a man: lucky bastard informal something extremely difficult or unpleasant: that job is a real bastard old-fashioned or offensive a person born of unmarried parents; an illegitimate baby, child, or adult something irregular, abnormal, or inferior a hybrid, esp an accidental or inferior one adj (prenominal) old-fashioned or offensive illegitimate by birth irregular, abnormal, or inferior in shape, size, or appearance resembling a specified thing, but not actually being such: a bastard cedar counterfeit; spuriousEtymology: 13th Century: from Old French bastart, perhaps from bast in the phrase fils de bast son of the packsaddle (that is, of an unlawful and not the marriage bed), from Medieval Latin bastum packsaddle, of uncertain origin
ˈbastardly adj 'bastard' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Dunois - alula - ba - bangalay - basket - bastard amber - bastard culverin - bastard eigne - bastard file - bastard indigo - bastard mahogany - bastard pointing - bastard ridley - bastard title - bastard toadflax - bastard turtle - bastard wing - bastard-saw - bastardize - bastardly - bastardry - bastardy - bend sinister - by-blow - git - grass widow - half title - illegitimate - legitimate - love child - mamzer - misbegotten - mulier puisne - nullius filius - plain-saw - ridley - so-and-so - sod - spurious - unfathered - unlawful - whoreson Synonyms: illegitimate child, natural child, love child, whoreson, spurious issue, more. Collocations: offensive: is a [lazy, arrogant, heartless, greedy, cynical, dirty, cheap, rat, lucky, sick] bastard, dated: the bastard [son, child] of, offensive: you [lazy, complete] bastard!, more.
Forum discussions with the word(s) "bastard" in the title:'Bastard' in a Scottish accent
Amble aft you drawn-out bastard
attractive 'bastard' [another word?]
bastard origin
bastard origins
bastard race
basterd or bastard ?
d***head, a**hole and bastard
Does "enamored" rhymes with "bastard" ?
every bastard <> comes down the street [subject contact relative omission]
gonna have a hell of a job skinning the bastard
I must have stubbed the bastard clean off my foot.
is the bastard doesn't exist
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want this bastard busted out of his job
little bastard
lucky bastard
si bastard [sick]
That was big of the bastard
They’ve always had an eye for him in return, lucky bastard.
two-timing bastard
wee bastard
Ya buftie bastard
You drunken, art-wrecking bastard
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