bastard adj

1 born out of wedlock; "the dominions of both rulers passed away to their spurious or doubtful offspring"- E.A.Freeman [syn: bastardly, misbegot, misbegotten, spurious]

2 fraudulent; having a misleading appearance [syn: bogus, fake, phony, phoney]

1 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]

2 the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents [syn: by-blow, love child, illegitimate child, illegitimate, whoreson]

3 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]

English

Pronunciation

• bäs'tə(r)d, /ˈbɑːst(r)d/, /bA:st@(r)d/
• băs'tə(r)d, /ˈbæstə(r)d/, /b

A bastard is an illegitimate child, and the word is also used as a derogatory term for an unpleasant person.

Bastard may also refer to:

• Bastard (Law of England and Wales), a child born to parents who are not married to one another
• Bastard (typeface), a blackletter typeface
• Bastard (color), a type of color gel
• Bastard Township, Ontario, Canada
• Bastarda or Bastard, a Gothic script
• Bastard, a classification of the teeth of a metalworking file
• Bastard sword, a type of longsword

In music:

• Bastard (album), an album by Blind Passengers
• "Bastard" (song), a song by Mötley Crüe

In film:

• Bastard (film), a Swedish-Norwegian film
• Bastard!!, a manga and anime series

In literature:

• The Bastard (novel), a novel by John Jakes
• "Bastard", a short story by Erskine Caldwell

People with the family name

surname Bastard

• 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 Pollexfen Bastard (1784–1838), British Tory politician
• John Bastard (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

See also

• Bastards (disambiguation)
• Antoine, bastard of Burgundy (1421-1504), half-brother of Charles the Bold
• Geoffrey, the Bastard, Geoffrey, Archbishop of York (c1152–1212), illegitimate son of Henry II, King of England
• Bastard of Fauconberg, Thomas Neville (?-1471), a Lancastrian leader in the War of the Roses
• William the Bastard, William I of England (1028–1087), William the Conqueror
• Baster (from the Dutch word for bastard), a descendant of liaisons between the Cape Colony Dutch and indigenous Africans
• Ol' Dirty Bastard, American rapper
• Rat Bastard, stage name of Frank Falestra, American musician and audio engineer
• MC Basstard, German rapper
• Fat Bastard (character), a fictional character from the Austin Powers films
• Harry the Bastard, a fictional character from the television series The Young Ones
• Ywain the Bastard, a Knight of the Round Table in Arthurian legend
• Spoilt Bastard, a fictional comic character from the magazine Viz
• Yellow Bastard, Roark Junior, a fictional character from the comics series Sin City
• Little Bastard, a ring name of professional wrestler Dylan Postl
• Bastardo (disambiguation)
• Bastardisation (disambiguation)

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