Bastard

bastard [bas-terd]

-noun

1. a person born of unmarried parents; an illegitimate child.
2. Slang:
   • vicious, despicable, or thoroughly disliked person: Some bastard slashed the tires on my car.
   • person, esp. a man: The poor bastard broke his leg.
3. something irregular, inferior, spurious, or unusual.
4. bastard culverin.

-adjective

1. illegitimate in birth.
2. spurious; not genuine; false: The architecture was bastard Gothic.
3. of abnormal or irregular shape or size; of unusual make or proportions: bastard quartz; bastard mahogany.
4. having the appearance of; resembling in some degree: a bastard Michelangelo; bastard emeralds.
5. Printing. (of a character) not of the font in which it is used or found.

Origin:
1250–1300; ME < AF bastard, ML bastardus (from 11th century), perh. < Gmc (Ingvaeonic) *bāst-, presumed var. of *bōst- 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

—Synonyms
6. fake, imitation, imperfect, sham, irregular, phony.

As we grow older

As we spend each day of our life

As we crunched each hour glass

Are we for the better or worst?

And so much for being a sensitive bastard!!!

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