bastard
Noun · AdjectiveOpen English WordNet
Noun (3)bastards
- insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculousSynonyms: assholecocksuckerdickheadshitmother fuckermotherfuckerprickwhoresonson of a bitchSOBType of unpleasant person, disagreeable person
- the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parentsSynonyms: by-blowlove childillegitimate childillegitimatewhoresonType of offspring, progeny
- 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”Synonyms: mongrelType of variation
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Translations
Noun person born to unmarried parents
- Spanish
- bastardo
- French
- bâtard
- German
- Bastard
- Italian
- bastardo
- Portuguese
- bastardo
- Turkish
- piç
- Russian
- внебра́чный ребёнок vnebráčnyj rebjónok
- Chinese
- 私生子 sīshēngzǐ
- Japanese
- 私生児 shiseiji
- Dutch
- bastaard
20 more languages
- Polish
- bękart
- Swedish
- bastard
- Korean
- 사생자 sasaengja
- Indonesian
- anak haram
- Vietnamese
- con hoang
- Hungarian
- fattyú
- Portuguese (PT)
- bastardo
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 私生子 sīshēngzǐ
- Albanian
- pisputh
- Catalan
- bastard
- Czech
- bastard
- Danish
- bastard
- Estonian
- sohilaps
- Finnish
- äpärä
- Georgian
- ნაბიჭვარი nabič̣vari
- Hebrew
- מַמְזֵר mamzer
- Norwegian
- lausunge
- Romanian
- bastard
- Serbo-Croatian
- kopile
- Yiddish
- ממזר mamzer
Noun contemptible etc. person
- Spanish
- cabrón
- French
- fils de pute
- German
- Bastard
- Italian
- bastardo
- Portuguese
- filho da puta
- Turkish
- piç
- Russian
- су́кин сын súkin syn
- Chinese
- 王八蛋 wángbadàn
- Japanese
- 野郎 yarō
- Dutch
- klootzak
16 more languages
- Polish
- skurwysyn
- Greek
- μπάσταρδος bástardos
- Korean
- 개자식 gaejasik
- Indonesian
- bangsat
- Vietnamese
- chó chết
- Hungarian
- szemétláda
- Portuguese (PT)
- filho da puta
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 王八蛋 wángbadàn
- Catalan
- fill de puta
- Danish
- skiderik
- Esperanto
- ulaĉo
- Estonian
- värdjas
- Finnish
- paskiainen
- Norwegian
- drittsekk
- Romanian
- bastard
- Yiddish
- סוואָלאָטש svolotsh
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: OF. bastard, bastart, F. bâtard, prob. fr. OF. bast, F. bât, a packsaddle used as a bed by the muleteers (fr. LL. bastum) + -ard. OF. fils de bast son of the packsaddle; as the muleteers were accustomed to use their saddles for beds in the inns. See Cervantes, “Don Quixote,” chap. 16; and cf. G. bankert, fr. bank bench.
1. A “natural” child; a child begotten and born out of wedlock; an illegitimate child; one born of an illicit union.
☞ By the civil and canon laws, and by the laws of many of the United States, a bastard becomes a legitimate child by the intermarriage of the parents at any subsequent time. But by those of England, and of some states of the United States, a child, to be legitimate, must at least be born after the lawful marriage. Kent. Blackstone.
2. Sugar Refining (a) An inferior quality of soft brown sugar, obtained from the sirups that have already had several boilings. (b) A large size of mold, in which sugar is drained.
3. A sweet Spanish wine like muscatel in flavor.
Brown bastard is your only drink.— William Shakespeare
4. A writing paper of a particular size. See Paper.
1. Begotten and born out of lawful matrimony; illegitimate. See Bastard, noun, note.
2. Lacking in genuineness; spurious; false; adulterate; — applied to things which resemble those which are genuine, but are really not so.
That bastard self-love which is so vicious in itself, and productive of so many vices.— Isaac Barrow
3. Of an unusual or irregular make or proportion; as, a bastard musket; a bastard culverin. obsolete
4. Printing Abbreviated, as the half title in a page preceding the full title page of a book.
Bastard ashlar Architecture, stones for ashlar work, roughly squared at the quarry. — Bastard file, a file intermediate between the coarsest and the second cut. — Bastard type Printing, type having the face of a larger or a smaller size than the body; e. g., a nonpareil face on a brevier body. — Bastard wing Zoology, three to five quill feathers on a small joint corresponding to the thumb in some mammalia; the alula.
To bastardize. obsolete Francis, Baron Verulam Bacon
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54