Bastard
['bɑːstəd;'bæst-] or ['bæstɚd]
Definition
(noun.) 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'.
(noun.) the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents.
Editor: Woodrow--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A "natural" child; a child begotten and born out of wedlock; an illegitimate child; one born of an illicit union.
(n.) An inferior quality of soft brown sugar, obtained from the sirups that / already had several boilings.
(n.) A large size of mold, in which sugar is drained.
(n.) A sweet Spanish wine like muscadel in flavor.
(n.) A writing paper of a particular size. See Paper.
(a.) Begotten and born out of lawful matrimony; illegitimate. See Bastard, n., note.
(n.) Lacking in genuineness; spurious; false; adulterate; -- applied to things which resemble those which are genuine, but are really not so.
(n.) Of an unusual make or proportion; as, a bastard musket; a bastard culverin.
(n.) Abbreviated, as the half title in a page preceding the full title page of a book.
(v. t.) To bastardize.
Editor: Philip
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Love-child, illegitimate child, natural child.
a. [1]. Illegitimate.[2]. Spurious, false, counterfeit, not genuine.
Typist: Rebecca
Definition
n. a child born of parents not married.—adj. born out of wedlock: not genuine: resembling but not identical with the species bearing the name: of abnormal shape or size: false.—n. Bas′tard-bar a popular but inaccurate name for the baton-sinister in heraldry.—v.t. Bas′tardise to prove to be a bastard.—adv. Bas′tardly (obs.).—ns. Bas′tard-wing three four or five feathers springing from the side of the wing of a bird near the point attached to a bony process which is the homologue of the thumb in some mammalia; Bas′tardy Bas′tardism the state of being a bastard.—Bastard title an abbreviated title of a book on an otherwise blank page preceding the full title-page; Bastard types types cast with an extra deep bevel to obviate the use of leads as Longprimer face on Pica body.
Editor: Myra
Examples
- I wonder what the bastard is planning now, Robert Jordan said. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The smart, treacherous ugly bastard. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The murderous bastard, he thought. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- That is the bastard child. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- That bastard Pablo. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- You dirty, rotten bastard. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Look at the little bastard. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Come on, you big gray fascist bastard, Robert Jordan said to the horse and put him down the slope in a sliding plunge. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Will they not be vile and bastard? Plato. The Republic.
- I told you I would send Adele to school; and what do I want with a child for a companion, and not my own child,--a French dancer's bastard? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- But you know the bastard must be fairly able to have run this band successfully for as long as he did. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Some have whispered to you that she is my bastard half-sister: some, my cast-off mistress. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The stupid egg-headed bastard. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- That's the bastard, Robert Jordan said. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Rouse him, you fascist bastard, he said. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- I believe the bastards have eaten already, Piani said. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- If those bastards let them through we are cooked, he said. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- He hates you bastards as much as I do. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- I wish the bastards would come, he said. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
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