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bas⋅tard
[bas-terd]
–noun
| 1. | a person born of unmarried parents; an illegitimate child. |
| 2. | Slang.
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| 3. | something irregular, inferior, spurious, or unusual. |
| 4. | bastard culverin. |
–adjective
| 5. | illegitimate in birth. |
| 6. | spurious; not genuine; false: The architecture was bastard Gothic. |
| 7. | of abnormal or irregular shape or size; of unusual make or proportions: bastard quartz; bastard mahogany. |
| 8. | having the appearance of; resembling in some degree: a bastard Michelangelo; bastard emeralds. |
| 9. | Printing. (of a character) not of the font in which it is used or found. |
Origin:
1250–1300; ME < AF bastard, ML bastardus (from 11th century), perh. < Gmc (Ingvaeonic) *bāst-, presumed var. of *bōst- marriage + OF -ard -ard, taken as signifying the offspring of a polygynous marriage to a woman of lower status, a pagan tradition not sanctioned by the church; cf. OFris bost marriage < Gmc *bandstu-, a n. deriv. of IE *bhendh- bind; the traditional explanation of OF bastard as deriv. of fils de bast “child of a packsaddle” is doubtful on chronological and geographical grounds
1250–1300; ME < AF bastard, ML bastardus (from 11th century), perh. < Gmc (Ingvaeonic) *bāst-, presumed var. of *bōst- marriage + OF -ard -ard, taken as signifying the offspring of a polygynous marriage to a woman of lower status, a pagan tradition not sanctioned by the church; cf. OFris bost marriage < Gmc *bandstu-, a n. deriv. of IE *bhendh- bind; the traditional explanation of OF bastard as deriv. of fils de bast “child of a packsaddle” is doubtful on chronological and geographical grounds

Synonyms:
6. fake, imitation, imperfect, sham, irregular, phony.
6. fake, imitation, imperfect, sham, irregular, phony.
bastard culverin
–noun Military.
| a 16th-century cannon, smaller than a culverin, firing a shot of between 5 and 8 lb. (11 and 17.6 kg). |
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