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▸ noun:  (dated) A person who was born out of wedlock, and hence often considered an illegitimate descendant.
▸ noun:  A mongrel (biological cross between different breeds, groups or varieties).
▸ noun:  (vulgar, offensive or derogatory, sometimes referring specifically to a man) A contemptible, inconsiderate, overly or arrogantly rude or spiteful person.
▸ noun:  (especially Australia, New Zealand, Philippines, endearing or humorous) A man, a fellow, a male friend.
▸ noun:  (often preceded by 'poor') A suffering person deemed deserving of compassion.
▸ noun:  (informal) A child who does not know their father.
▸ noun:  (informal) Something extremely difficult or unpleasant to deal with.
▸ noun:  A variation that is not genuine; something irregular or inferior or of dubious origin, fake or counterfeit.
▸ noun:  A bastard file.
▸ noun:  A sweet wine.
▸ noun:  A sword that is midway in length between a short-sword and a long sword; also bastard sword.
▸ noun:  An inferior quality of soft brown sugar, obtained from syrups that have been boiled several times.
▸ noun:  A large mould for straining sugar.
▸ noun:  A writing paper of a particular size.
▸ noun:  (UK, politics, derogatory) A Eurosceptic Conservative MP, especially in the government of John Major.
▸ adjective:  Of or like a bastard (illegitimate human descendant).
▸ adjective:  Of or like a bastard (bad person).
▸ adjective:  Of or like a mongrel, bastardized creature/cross.
▸ adjective:  Of abnormal, irregular or otherwise inferior qualities (size, shape etc).
▸ adjective:  Spurious, lacking authenticity: counterfeit, fake.
▸ adjective:  (of a language) Imperfect; not spoken or written well or in the classical style; broken.
▸ adjective:  Used in the vernacular name of a species to indicate that it is similar in some way to another species, often (but not always) one of another genus.
▸ adjective:  (UK, Ireland, vulgar) Very unpleasant.
▸ adjective:  (printing) Abbreviated, as the half title in a page preceding the full title page of a book.
▸ adjective:  (theater lighting) Consisting of one predominant color blended with small amounts of complementary color; used to replicate natural light because of their warmer appearance.
▸ verb:  (obsolete) To bastardize.
▸ noun:  A surname from Old French.




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