英语词汇“bastard-bars”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

bastard /basˈtərd or bäˈstərd/

noun

A child born of parents not married to each other

A difficult or unpleasant person or thing, an unfortunate person, or neutrally, a chap (offensive sl)

(also baster /basˈtər/) a person of mixed European and African parentage (S Afr hist)

A sweet Spanish wine (Shakespeare)

adjective

Born out of wedlock

Not genuine

Resembling, but not identical with, the species bearing the name (science, esp botany)

Of abnormal shape or size

False

ORIGIN: OFr bastard (Fr bâtard) child of the packsaddle (OFr bast)

bastˈardism noun

Bastardy

bastardizāˈtion or bastardisāˈtion noun

basˈtardize or basˈtardise transitive verb

To debase, corrupt

To pronounce to be or prove to be a bastard

intransitive verb

To beget bastards (Shakespeare)

To degenerate

basˈtardly adjective

basˈtardy noun

The state of being a bastard

basˈtard-bar noun

An inaccurate name for the baton-sinister in heraldry

bastard file noun

A file with teeth of a medium degree of coarseness

bastard title noun

An abbreviated title of a book on an otherwise blank page preceding the full title-page

bastard types plural noun (printing)

Types cast with an extra deep bevel to avoid the use of leads, such as longprimer face on pica body

bastard wing noun

Three, four or five feathers on the first digit (corresponding to the thumb) of a bird's wing