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/bɑ.taʁ/
Translation
bastard; mongrel
Word origin
From Old French bastard, first used of a child born outside marriage. The first element is genuinely disputed.
- Origin
- Old French
- Root
- bastard
- English cognates
- bastard
Other proposed origins
- Most often traced to fils de bast, a child conceived on a pack saddle rather than in a marriage bed. (bast)
- Some accounts read the ending as the Germanic -hard found in many names, attached to a first element of uncertain sense. (-hard)
Grammar
Examples
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That bloke is a real bastard.
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He calls everybody a bastard.
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The king's bastards had no right to the land.
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She stood up for her son against those bastards.
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The neighbour's dog is a mongrel.
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