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bas·tard

(băs′tərd)

1. Offensive A person born to parents not married to each other.

2. Slang

a. A person considered to be mean or contemptible.

b. A person, especially one considered to be unfortunate: "crumbling shacks where some poor bastard had tried to raise a family" (Tom Clancy).

3. Something that is of irregular, inferior, or dubious origin.

adj.

1. Offensive Born to parents not married to each other.

2. Not genuine; spurious: a bastard style of architecture.

3. Resembling a known kind or species but not truly such.

[Middle English, from Old French, probably of Germanic origin; akin to Old Frisian bōst, marriage.]

bas′tard·ly adj.

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bastard

(ˈbɑːstəd; ˈbæs-)

1. informal offensive an obnoxious or despicable person

2. informal often jocular a person, esp a man: lucky bastard.

3. informal something extremely difficult or unpleasant: that job is a real bastard.

4. old-fashioned or offensive a person born of unmarried parents; an illegitimate baby, child, or adult

5. something irregular, abnormal, or inferior

6. (Breeds) a hybrid, esp an accidental or inferior one

adj (prenominal)

7. old-fashioned or offensive illegitimate by birth

8. irregular, abnormal, or inferior in shape, size, or appearance

9. resembling a specified thing, but not actually being such: a bastard cedar.

10. counterfeit; spurious

[C13: from Old French bastart, perhaps from bast in the phrase fils de bast son of the packsaddle (that is, of an unlawful union and not the marriage bed), from Medieval Latin bastum packsaddle, of uncertain origin]

ˈbastardly adj

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bas•tard

(ˈbæs tərd)

n.

1. a person born of unmarried parents; an illegitimate child.

2. a mean, despicable person.

3. something spurious or inferior.

adj.

4. illegitimate in birth.

5. made or done in imitation; spurious; false: bastard emeralds.

6. of abnormal or irregular shape or size.

[1250–1300; Middle English < Anglo-French; Medieval Latin bastardus, probably < Germanic *bāst-]

bas′tard•ly, adj.

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Noun	1.	bastard - insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous dickhead, mother fucker, motherfucker, prick, asshole, son of a bitch, whoreson, cocksucker, SOB, shit dirty word, vulgarism, obscenity, smut, filth - an offensive or indecent word or phrase disagreeable person, unpleasant person - a person who is not pleasant or agreeable
	2.	bastard - the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents by-blow, illegitimate, illegitimate child, love child, whoreson offspring, progeny, issue - the immediate descendants of a person; "she was the mother of many offspring"; "he died without issue"
	3.	bastard - 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" mongrel variation - an artifact that deviates from a norm or standard; "he patented a variation on the sandal"
Adj.	1.	bastard - fraudulent; having a misleading appearance bogus, fake, phoney, phony counterfeit, imitative - not genuine; imitating something superior; "counterfeit emotion"; "counterfeit money"; "counterfeit works of art"; "a counterfeit prince"

bastard

noun

1. (Informal, offensive) rogue, criminal, sharper, fraud, cheat, devil, crook (informal), villain, charlatan, rascal, profligate, scoundrel, con man (informal), scally (Northwest English dialect), fraudster, wretch (slang), swindler, libertine, knave (archaic), ne'er-do-well, reprobate, scumbag, miscreant, scamp, malefactor, blackguard, evildoer, grifter (slang, chiefly U.S. & Canad.), rapscallion, caitiff (archaic), skelm (S. African) I don't trust the bastard.

2. illegitimate child, love child, by-blow (archaic), natural child, child born out of wedlock, whoreson (archaic) He was a bastard, disowned by his father.

3. (Informal, offensive) nuisance, pain, bore, drag (informal), bother, headache (informal), pest, irritation, gall, annoyance, aggravation, pain in the neck (informal), pain in the arse (taboo informal), vexation Life can be a real bastard at times.

adjective

1. illegitimate, fatherless, born out of wedlock, misbegotten (literary), born on the wrong side of the blanket, baseborn his bastard son

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bastard

adjective

Born to parents who are not married to each other:

baseborn, illegitimate, misbegotten, natural, spurious, unlawful.

Translations

، إبْنُ سِفاح، إبْنُ زِنىوَلَد غَيْر شَرْعي

nemanželské dítěnemanželský

bastardbastard-uægte

Bastard Blödmann Mistkerl Sau unehelich

νόθος

bastardo hijo natural

ahvfeikjobuneegerpede

äpäräjäljitelmäkiusankappalekusipäälehtolapsi

bâtardfils de putesalopardfils de putain

fattyú

óskilgetiî barn, bastarîuróskilgetinn

bastardo duro

nesantuokinispavainikis

ārlaulības-ārlaulības bērnsbastards

født utenfor ekteskap lausunge uekte

ублюдок гад козёл мудак незаконный ребёнок

nemanželské dieťa

nezakonski otrokničvrednež

bastardskitstövel

gayrimeşru çocukpiç

私生子私生的

bastard

[ˈbɑːstəd]

A. ADJ (= illegitimate) → bastardo

B. N

1. (= illegitimate child) → bastardo/a m/f

2. → cabrón/ona m/f, hijo/a m/f de puta, hijo/a m/f de la chingada (Mex)
you bastard! → ¡cabrón!
you old bastard! → ¡hijoputa!
that silly bastard → ese idiota
this job is a real bastard → este trabajo es muy jodido

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

bastard

[ˈbɑːstə^rd] n

(= illegitimate child) → enfant naturel(le) m/f, bâtard(e) m/f bastard son, bastard daughter

(term of abuse) → salaud m
You bastard! → Salaud!
You stupid bastard!
BUT Espèce de con!.bastard daughter n → bâtarde f

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

bastard

(lit) → uneheliches Kind, Bastard m (old); (fig: = hybrid) → Bastard m, → Kreuzung f

(sl: = person) → Scheißkerl m (inf); stupid bastard → Arschloch nt (vulg); poor bastard → armes Schwein (inf), → armer Hund (inf)

(sl: = difficult job etc) this question is a real bastard → diese Frage ist wirklich hundsgemein (inf); a bastard of a job etc → eine Scheißarbeit etc (inf)

adj

(lit) child → unehelich

(fig: = hybrid) dog, plant → Bastard-; language → Misch-

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

bastard

[ˈbɑːstəd]

1. n → bastardo/a (fam!, pej) → figlio di puttana (fam!)

2. adj (child) → illegittimo/a

bastard

(ˈbaːstəd) noun

a child born of parents not married to each other.

adjective

a bastard son.

bastard

n. bastardo-a; hijo o hija ilegítimo-a.

References in classic literature ?

Religious cautions against showing too much favour to bastards; and a great discovery made by Mrs Deborah Wilkins.

Whence he argued the legality of punishing the crime of the parent on the bastard. He said, "Though the law did not positively allow the destroying such base-born children, yet it held them to be the children of nobody; that the Church considered them as the children of nobody; and that at the best, they ought to be brought up to the lowest and vilest offices of the commonwealth."

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John de Warenne, Earl of Surrey, married at the age of twenty to a ten-year-old granddaughter of Edward I, had at least eight bastards and a complicated love life.

The Legitimacy of Bastards

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has said that his Sri Lankan counterpart Maithripala Sirisena has vowed to emulate his approach to curbing the drug menace by 'killing bastards.'

Duterte says Sirisena will follow his example and kill 'bastards'

Wildlife Conservation Department Director Muhammad Naeem Bhatti on Tuesday confirmed that the federal government has issued orders to all the provincial governments stating that the foreigners should be charged a fee amount" for hunting the Houbara Bastards. Following this, a process to collect the fees has been initiated by the government.

Govt initiates fee collection process from foreigners hunting Houbara Bastards

A HISTORIC hotel has been bought back by a family of Bastards.

Bastards get their hands on old hotel

City of Bastards begins where the first novel ended: Tilla has fled from her home and treasonous father, Lord Kent, who is planning war on their kingdom of Lightspire.

Shvarts, Andrew. City of Bastards: Royal Bastards, Book 2

Audrey Schulman; THEORY OF BASTARDS; Europa Editions (Fiction: Literary) 18.00 ISBN: 9781609454371

Theory of Bastards

While that is hardly a new thought regarding the accomplishment of Tom Jones, what I do think has not been sufficiently noted about the novel is that Fielding's careful and consistent rewriting of Tom's character extends beyond merely challenging assumptions about bastards. It is an attempt to confront the larger problem within fiction of a "plot operating outside his control," (51) somehow determining the truth of a character despite that character's "actual" attributes.

Escaping type: Nonreferential character and the narrative work of Henry Fielding's Tom Jones

Maple Razsa, Bastards of Utopia: living radical politics after socialism Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2015; 291 pp; ISBN 9780253015839 with:

Bastards of Utopia: living radical politics after socialism

And even though they're enemies, they've both risen so far as bastards, which is almost incomprehensible, and now they're both facing each other.

'Game Of Thrones' CGI Department Dishes On Ramsay Bolton's Death Scene

Mind you, I'm glad we've seen the back of 'bilious attacks' and 'egg-bound' - although old-fashioned bastards (those born outside of wedlock) as opposed to modern bastards (rotters) seem to be having a bit of a moment.