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English
Proper noun
Bastard (plural Bastards)
- A surname from Old French.
Anagrams
German
Etymology
From Middle High German bastart, basthart (“illegitimate child of a nobleman”), from Old French bastart, probably from Frankish, but the precise derivation is uncertain.
Pronunciation
Noun
Bastard m (strong, genitive Bastardes or Bastards, plural Bastarde, feminine Bastardin)
- (derogatory) bastard (person born to unmarried parents)
- Synonyms: (dated) Bankert, (offensive) Hurenkind, (dated) Kebskind
- (usually derogatory) bastard; mongrel (person born to parents considered incongruous in class, race, etc.; male or unspecified sex)
- Synonyms: Blendling, Mischling, Kreuzling
- (biology, zoology, botany) crossbreed, hybrid, mongrel (male or of unspecified gender)
- Synonyms: Blendling, Mischling, Kreuzling, Kreuzung, Hybride, Hybrid
Usage notes
- The German word is also used an insult, but not as frequently as in English. The connection with “ignoble extraction” is still clearly felt (which is not always the case in English).
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Further reading
- “Bastard” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Bastard” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “Bastard” in Duden online