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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cod \Cod\, n. [Cf. G. gadde, and (in Heligoland) gadden, L. gadus merlangus.] (Zo["o]l.) An important edible fish ( Gadus morrhua), taken in immense numbers on the northern coasts of Europe and America. It is especially abundant and large on the Grand Bank of Newfoundland. It is salted and dried in large quantities.
Note: There are several varieties; as shore cod, from shallow water; bank cod, from the distant banks; and rock cod, which is found among ledges, and is often dark brown or mottled with red. The tomcod is a distinct species of small size. The bastard, blue, buffalo, or cultus cod of the Pacific coast belongs to a distinct family. See Buffalo cod, under Buffalo.
Cod fishery, the business of fishing for cod.
Cod line, an eighteen-thread line used in catching codfish.
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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 often doubled as beds while traveling), with pejorative ending -art (see -ard). Alternative possibly is that the word is from Proto-Germanic *banstiz "barn," equally suggestive of low origin.\n
\nNot always regarded as a stigma; the Conqueror is referred to in state documents as "William the Bastard." Figurative sense of "something not pure or genuine" is late 14c.; use as a vulgar term of abuse for a man is attested from 1830. As an adjective from late 14c. Among the "bastard" words in Halliwell-Phillipps' "Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words" are avetrol, chance-bairn, by-blow, harecoppe, horcop, and gimbo ("a bastard's bastard").
Wiktionary
1 of or like a bastard (illegitimate human descendant) 2 of or like a bastard (bad person) 3 of or like a mongrel, bastardized creature/cross 4 of abnormal, irregular or otherwise inferior qualities (size, shape etc.) 5 spurious, lacking authenticity: counterfeit, fake 6 (context UK vulgar English) Very unpleasant. 7 (context printing English) Abbreviated, as the half title in a page preceding the full title page of a book. interj. (context rare vulgar English) Exclamation of strong dismay or strong sense of being upset. n. 1 A person who was born out of wedlock, and hence often considered an illegitimate descendant. 2 A mongrel. A biological cross between different breeds, groups or varieties. 3 (context vulgar referring to a man English) A contemptible, inconsiderate, overly or arrogantly rude or spiteful person. See asshole, sod. 4 (context often humorous English) A man, a fellow, a male friend. 5 (often preceded by 'poor') A person deserving of pity. 6 (context informal English) A child who does not know his or her father. 7 (context informal English) Something extremely difficult or unpleasant to deal with. 8 A variation that is not genuine; something irregular or inferior or of dubious origin, fake or counterfeit. 9 An intermediate-grade file; also bastard file. 10 A sweet wine. 11 A sword that is midway in length between a short-sword and a long sword; also bastard sword. 12 An inferior quality of soft brown sugar, obtained from syrups that have been boiled several times. 13 A large mould for straining sugar. 14 A writing paper of a particular size. v
(context obsolete English) To bastardize.
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: by-blow, love child, illegitimate child, illegitimate, whoreson]
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" [syn: mongrel]
Wikipedia
Bastard may refer to
- an illegitimate child, a child born to unmarried parents, see legitimacy (family law)
- Bastard (Law of England and Wales), illegitimacy in English law
A bastard (also historically called whoreson, although both of these terms have largely dropped from common usage) in the law of England and Wales is an illegitimate child, that is, one whose parents were not married at the time of his or her birth. Unlike in many other systems of law, there was previously no possibility of post factum legitimisation of a bastard. This situation was changed in 1926.
Bastard is a blackletter typeface designed by Jonathan Barnbrook in 1990. The name derives from a typographic classification known as Bastarda. The Bastard face is an exploration of the blackletter face (the earliest types, similar to those made by Gutenberg, and based upon monastic script) with a simple kit of parts. The face is available in three weights: Spindly Bastard, Fat Bastard, and Even Fatter Bastard.
While the angular terminals suggest the nib of a pen, the typeface was drawn electronically and avoids curved strokes. The c. 1865 typeface Fletcher is similar in its purely geometric construction.
Bastard (Swedish: Vildmarkens sång) is a Norwegian-Swedish film released in 1940. It stars Georg Løkkeberg and was directed by Helge Lunde and Gösta Stevens; the story is based on the story "Basterd" by F.W. Remmler.
Bastard is the debut studio album by American hip hop recording artist and Odd Future member Tyler, The Creator. It was self-produced by Tyler, the Creator and was first released on December 25, 2009, by his own independently-incorporated Odd Future record label.
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), Oxford University and Somerset cricketer
- Edmund Bastard (politician) (1758-1816), British Tory politician
- Edmund Pollexfen Bastard (1784–1838), British Tory politician
- Gerald Bastard (born 1950), French physicist
- John Bastard (Royal Navy officer) (c. 1787 – 1835), Royal Navy officer and politician
- John Bastard (cricketer) (1817–1848), Cambridge University and Marylebone Cricket Club cricketer
- John Pollexfen Bastard (1756–1816), British Tory politician
- Segar Bastard (1854–1921), English international footballer and referee
- Thomas Bastard (1565/6-1618), English epigrammatist
- Pownoll Bastard Pellew, 2nd Viscount Exmouth (1786–1833), English peer and sailor
Bastard is the ninth album by the Medieval Metal band Subway to Sally.
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.