Sekirov Dictionary

bastard

UK /ˈbɑːs.təd/US /ˈbæs.tɚd/

noun 15
adjective 10
exclamation 1
verb 1
forms 5

noun15

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(old-fashioned) A person who was born out of wedlock, and hence often considered an illegitimate descendant.
- Jarrod: Who are you? Heath: Your father’s bastard son. — 1965
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(vulgar, offensive) a cruel or rude person who does not care about others
- Some bastard stole my car while I was helping an injured person.
- You sick bastard!
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(UK, offensive) A Eurosceptic Conservative MP, especially in the government of John Major.
- If you are a politician, you make sure that you know all such references in case an interviewer suddenly asks, 'Are you one of the bastards in Mr Major's cabinet?' — 2000
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A suffering person deemed deserving of compassion.
- Poor bastard, I feel so sorry for him.
- These poor bastards started out life probably in bad or broken homes.
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(humorous) A man, a fellow, a male friend.
- Get over here, you old bastard!
(informal) A child who does not know their father.
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(informal) Something extremely difficult or unpleasant to deal with.
- Life can be a real bastard.
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A variation that is not genuine; something irregular or inferior or of dubious origin, fake or counterfeit.
- The architecture was a kind of bastard, suggesting Gothic but not being true Gothic.
A sword that is midway in length between a short-sword and a long sword; also bastard sword.
A mongrel (biological cross between different breeds, groups or varieties).
A bastard file.
An inferior quality of soft brown sugar, obtained from syrups that have been boiled several times.
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A kind of sweet wine.
- […] we shall haue all the world drinke browne & white bastard. — 1603
A writing paper of a particular size.
A large mould for straining sugar.

adjective10

Of or like a bastard (illegitimate human descendant).
Of or like a bastard (bad person).
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(UK, vulgar) Very unpleasant.
- I’ve got a bastard headache.
Of abnormal, irregular or otherwise inferior qualities (size, shape etc).
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Imperfect; not spoken or written well or in the classical style; broken.
- Of what race could these people be? Their language was a bastard Arabic, and yet they were not Arabs; I was quite sure of that. — 1886
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Spurious, lacking authenticity: counterfeit, fake.
- that bastard self-love which is so vicious in itself, and productive of so many vices — 1678
Used in the vernacular name of a species to indicate that it is similar in some way to another species, often (but not always) one of another genus.
Of or like a mongrel, bastardized creature/cross.
Abbreviated, as the half title in a page preceding the full title page of a book.
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Consisting of one predominant color blended with small amounts of complementary color; used to replicate natural light because of their warmer appearance.
- A bastard orange gel produces predominantly orange light with undertones of blue.

exclamation1

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(vulgar, rare) Exclamation of strong dismay or strong sense of being upset.
- Jack says, “Oh! Bastard! I’m hit!” That bullet had to have come in the busted back window and how it missed Johnnie to hit Jack I don’t know. — 2001

verb1

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(no longer used) To bastardize.
- After her husband's death she was matter of tragedy , having lived to see her brother beheaded , and her two sons deposed from the crown , bastarded in their blood — 1622

forms

bastarded · bastarding · bastards · more bastard · most bastard

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