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The illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents
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bastard
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Bastard is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Bastard brothers John (c. 1668 – 1770) and William (c. 1689 – 1766), British surveyor-architects and civic dignitaries Benjamin Bastard (died 1772), British architect E. W. Bastard (1862–1901), ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous [syn: asshole , cocksucker , dickhead , shit , mother fucker , motherfucker , prick , whoreson , son of a bitch , SOB ] the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents [syn: ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES old fool/bastard/bat etc ▪ Am I to be troubled by a skinny old fool in mirror shades? ▪ An old fool if you like. ▪ But then the old fool should have been a little less unwashed and boring. ▪ He was no more to her, he thought, ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"illegitimate child," early 13c., from Old French bastard (11c., Modern French bâtard ), "acknowledged child of a nobleman by a woman other than his wife," probably from fils de bast "packsaddle son," meaning a child conceived on an improvised bed (saddles ...
Usage examples of bastard.
Perhaps a priest would annul the marriage because Kenric was a bastard.
Besides, she was not a well-bred young lady, she was a love-child, which was a much pleas anter term than bastard.
His friends, the old braggers and bastards and butchers, had made their living from the swamp, and the swamp now laid new foundations on their frames.
That was the respect he wanted, from the bastards in Brewhouse Lane who had said he would never amount to anything and who had whipped him bloody because he was a bastard off the streets.
Most of the time she wondered why all the men in her life were such manipulative bastards.
He buckled to the pressure those abolitionist bastards like Dana and their Chicago cousins like Joe Medill put on him.
You want me to spend my nights skulking up and down the roadways, probably catching my death of damp, searching out the miscreant who is impersonating our dear Jack, then haul the bastard to justice.
You know the tricky little bastard depends on misdirection, or getting a man to think along natural lines while he pulls something plain logic would never lead one to expect.
A bizarre and bastard concoction, made of equal parts lust and misogyny, all of it dressed up in theological gibberish.
This is Mongo Boltry, a bastard rot I have not seen in many long months, and a good friend besides!
His brother spending every waking moment with Rosalind had kept him far away from the Mortmain bastard and out of any more possible danger.
His reputation had entered the prison before him and any aspiring buggerers kept a respectful distance from the vindictive grudge-bearing wee bastard who had cut Parkie short on prime-time TV.
I am Sir Alain Fitz de Personne, bastard knight, sworn to my liege lord, King William.
But it was like reinhabiting the situation, to speak, and he must have known that, the bastard, it was awful to look right at him and say it, to keep seeing her dark shadow, smelling that perfume.
Some of these poor bastards have undergone three or four scans to vacuum every scrap of information from their skulls.