bastard

Speech parts

1. bastard - Noun

2. bastard - Adjective

3. bastard - Verb

4. bastard - Interjection

5. bastard - Adjective Satellite

6. Bastard - Proper noun

Meaning

A "natural" child; a child begotten and born out of wedlock; an illegitimate child; one born of an illicit union.

An inferior quality of soft brown sugar, obtained from the sirups that / already had several boilings.

A large size of mold, in which sugar is drained.

A sweet Spanish wine like muscadel in flavor.

A writing paper of a particular size. See Paper.

Begotten and born out of lawful matrimony; illegitimate. See Bastard, n., note.

Lacking in genuineness; spurious; false; adulterate; -- applied to things which resemble those which are genuine, but are really not so.

Of an unusual make or proportion; as, a bastard musket; a bastard culverin.

Abbreviated, as the half title in a page preceding the full title page of a book.

To bastardize.

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I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country. George S. Patton

A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard. Billy Wilder

Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard. John Steinbeck

Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there's time, the Bastard Time. John Steinbeck

See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too. Linus Torvalds

Bastard brood are aye proud. Scottish Proverb

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