bastard

Definitions

(Adjective) fatherless.

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1. An illegitimate child; a child born of unwed parents.
Synonyms: adulterine child; bachelor's baby; baseborn; base-begotten child; base-son; blankard; a blotch on the escutcheon; bastardly gullion; born in the vestry; born on the wrong side of the blanket (or covers); a blotch of the escutcheon; born out of wedlock; bush child; by-blow (-chop; -scape; -slip); catch colt; chance child; come-by-chance; come through the side door; fatherless child; filius nullius; fruit of adultery; illegitimate child; left-handed son/daughter; love begotten child; love child; merry-begotten; misborn; natural child; offspring of adultery; side-stroke; sinfant; spurious offspring; whore's kitling; whore's son; woods colt; whorephan; whoreson.
See also: break a leg.

Quote: Tuco (Eli Wallach) to Blondie (Clint Eastwood) in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1967): ' You know what you are? You don't? I do! Everybody does. You're the son of a thousand fathers, all bastards like you.'

2. An adjective synonymous with illegitimate.

3. A vicious, mean, disagreable, thoroughly disliked or dislikable person.

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(Expression) a child born out of wedlock

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(Noun) (Slang/informal): a term expressing distaste or contempt for another.