| 单词 | bastard |
| 释义 | bastard /bas"teuhrd/, n. 1. a person born of unmarried parents; an illegitimate child. 2. Slang. a. a vicious, despicable, or thoroughly disliked person: Some bastard slashed the tires on my car. b. a person, esp. a man: The poor bastard broke his leg. 3. something irregular, inferior, spurious, or unusual. 4. See bastard culverin. adj. 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. Print. (of a character) not of the font in which it is used or found. [1250-1300; ME < AF bastard, ML bastardus (from 11th century), perh. < Gmc (Ingvaeonic) *bast-, presumed var. of *bost- 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] Syn. 6. fake, imitation, imperfect, sham, irregular, phony. |
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