bastard
noun
[ ˈbɑːstəd ]
• an unpleasant or despicable person.
• "he lied to me, the bastard!"
Similar:
scoundrel,
villain,
rogue,
rascal,
brute,
animal,
weasel,
snake,
monster,
ogre,
wretch,
devil,
good-for-nothing,
reprobate,
wrongdoer,
evil-doer,
picaro,
scumbag,
pig,
swine,
louse,
hound,
cur,
rat,
beast,
son of a bitch,
SOB,
low life,
skunk,
nasty piece of work,
ratbag,
wrong 'un,
git,
toerag,
scrote,
blighter,
bad lot,
spalpeen,
sleeveen,
fink,
rat fink,
butthole,
scamp,
dingo,
cad,
heel,
bad egg,
dastard,
knave,
stinker,
rotter,
bounder,
blackguard,
miscreant,
varlet,
vagabond,
rapscallion,
whoreson,
shit,
fucker,
wanker,
tosser,
arsehole,
sod,
bugger,
fuck,
motherfucker,
asshole,
mofo,
mother,
• a person born of parents not married to each other.
Similar:
illegitimate child,
child born out of wedlock,
love child,
by-blow,
natural child/son/daughter,
bastard
adjective
• (of a thing) no longer in its pure or original form; debased.
• "a bastard Darwinism"
• born of parents not married to each other; illegitimate.
• "a bastard child"
Origin:
Middle English: via Old French from medieval Latin bastardus, probably from bastum ‘packsaddle’; compare with Old French fils de bast, ‘packsaddle son’ (i.e. the son of a mule driver who uses a packsaddle for a pillow and is gone by morning).
