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A bastard is an illegitimate child, and the word is also used as a derogatory term for an unpleasant person. The term can also mean a mongrel
Mongrel

File:hybrid vigour.jpgMongrel refers to mixed ancestry:* Among pets, one whose parentage is of unknown or mixed breeds as opposed to purebred....
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A bastard is an illegitimate child, and the word is also used as a derogatory term for an unpleasant person. The term can also mean a mongrel
Mongrel

File:hybrid vigour.jpgMongrel refers to mixed ancestry:* Among pets, one whose parentage is of unknown or mixed breeds as opposed to purebred....
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Bastard may also refer to:
  • Bastard (Law of England and Wales)
    Bastard (Law of England and Wales)

    A bastard in the law of England and Wales is a person whose parents, at the time of his birth, are not married to each other. A person conceived to a couple not married to each other but who subsequently marry before the birth would not be treated as a bastard....
    , a child born to parents who are not married to one another
  • Bastard (typeface)
    Bastard (typeface)

    Bastard is a blackletter typeface designed by Jonathan Barnbrook in 1990. The name derives from a typographic classification known as Bastarda....
    , a blackletter typeface
  • Bastard (color)
    Bastard (color)

    In theatre lighting, a bastard color refers to a color, typically in a color gel, wherein the predominant color is blended with small amounts of complementary colors; for example, a "bastard orange" gel would produce predominantly orange light with undertones of blue ....
    , a type of color gel
  • Bastard Township, Ontario, Canada
  • Bastarda
    Bastarda

    Bastarda was a Gothic script used in France and Germany during the 14th and 15th centuries. These scripts were designed to provide a simplified letter that was appropriate for the copying of books or documents of minor value or importance....
     or Bastard, a Gothic script
  • Bastard, a classification of the teeth of a metalworking file
    File (tool)

    A file is a hand tool used to shape material by cutting. A file typically takes the form of a hardened steel bar, mostly covered with a series of sharp, parallel ridges or teeth....
  • Bastard sword, a type of longsword
    Longsword

    The Longsword is a type of European sword used during the late medieval and Renaissance periods, approximately 1350 to 1550 . Longswords have long cruciform hilts with grips over some 15 cm in length , straight double-edged blades often over 90 cm in length, and weigh typically between 1.2 and 1.4 kg , with light specimens just below 1 kg ,...


It was used as an epithet in people's names until recent times:
  • Antoine, bastard of Burgundy
    Antoine, bastard of Burgundy

    Antoine , known to his contemporaries as "the bastard of Duchy of Burgundy" or "the Grand Bastard - le grand b?tard" - was the natural son of Philip III, Duke of Burgundy and one of his mistresses, Jeanne de Presle....
     (1421-1504), half-brother of Charles the Bold
  • Geoffrey, the Bastard, Geoffrey, Archbishop of York (c1152–1212), illegitimate son of Henry II, King of England
  • Bastard of Fauconberg
    Bastard of Fauconberg

    Thomas Neville was a House of Lancaster leader in the Wars of the Roses.The illegitimate son of William Neville, 1st Earl of Kent, Thomas Neville was more often referred to as The Bastard of Fauconberg , Lord Fauconberg or just Thomas the Bastard....
    , Thomas Neville (?-1471), a Lancastrian leader in the War of the Roses
  • William the Bastard, William I of England (1028–1087), William the Conqueror


Characters and pseudonyms:
  • Ol' Dirty Bastard
    Ol' Dirty Bastard

    Russell Tyrone Jones was an American rapper who went by the stage name Ol' Dirty Bastard . He was one of the founding members of the hip hop music group Wu-Tang Clan....
    , American rapper
  • MC Basstard
    MC Basstard

    MC Basstard is a MC and Horrorcore rapper of Berlin. And a member of Berlin Crime and Bass Crew...
    , German rapper
  • Fat Bastard (character)
    Fat Bastard (character)

    Fat Bastard is a fictional character in the second and third films in the Austin Powers . He is a morbidly obese henchman hailing from Scotland....
    , a fictional character from the Austin Powers films
  • Harry the Bastard, a fictional character from the television series The Young Ones
    The Young Ones (TV series)

    The Young Ones was a popular United Kingdom situation comedy, first seen in 1982, on BBC Two. Its anarchy, offbeat humour helped bring alternative comedy to television in the 1980s and made household names of its writers and performers....
  • Ywain the Bastard
    Ywain the Bastard

    Ywain the Bastard, also called Ywain the Adventurous, is a son of King Urien of Gore and a Knights of the Round Table of the Round Table in Arthurian legend....
    , a Knight of the Round Table in Arthurian legend
  • Spoilt Bastard
    Spoilt Bastard

    Spoilt Bastard is a comic character from the magazine Viz , focusing on a young vain child and his self-sacrificing and long-suffering mother....
    , a fictional comic character from the magazine Viz
  • Yellow Bastard, Roark Junior
    Roark family

    The Roark family is a fictional dynasty from Frank Miller 's graphic novel series Sin City.The family is made up of corrupt officials and landowners of Irish American descent, who hold nearly absolute power in Basin City....
    , a fictional character from the comics series Sin City
  • Little Bastard, a ring name of professional wrestler Dylan Postl


In music:
  • Bastard (album)
    Bastard (album)

    Bastard is the 4th album of Blind Passengers, released in 1999. It was their first entry at the official German Album Charts and released under both Dragnet Records and Sony Music Entertainment....
    , an album by Blind Passengers
  • Bästard, a CD by Yann Tiersen
    Yann Tiersen

    Guillaume Yann Tiersen is a France musician and composer known internationally for composing the score to the Jean-Pierre Jeunet movie Am?lie. His music is recognized by its use of a large variety of instruments in relatively Minimalist music compositions, often with a touch of either European classical music or French folk music, using prim...
  • "Bastard" (song)
    Bastard (song)

    "Bastard" is a song by the Rock and roll band M?tley Cr?e, from the album Shout at the Devil released in 1983. This song was rated #5 in the Parents Music Resource Center Parents Music Resource Center#The Filthy Fifteen list in 1985....
    , a song by Mötley Crüe


In film:
  • Bastard (film)
    Bastard (film)

    Bastard, also known as Tyler O'Doherty in Aledo, is a Norwegian-Swedish film released in 1940 in film. It stars Georg L?kkeberg and was directed by Helge Lunde and G?sta Stevens; the story is based on the story "Basterd" by F.W....
    , a Swedish-Norwegian film
  • Bastard!!
    Bastard!!

    is a manga by Kazushi Hagiwara. It first appeared in Weekly Shonen Jump, in 1988, and continues to be published irregularly today in Ultra Jump....
    , a manga and anime series


In literature:
  • The Bastard (novel)
    The Bastard (novel)

    The Bastard is a historical novel written by John Jakes and originally published in 1974. It is book one in a series known as The Kent Family Chronicles or the American Bicentennial Series....
    , a novel by John Jakes
  • "Bastard", a short story by Erskine Caldwell
    Erskine Caldwell

    Erskine Preston Caldwell was an United States author....


People with the family name

  • Bastard brothers
    Bastard brothers

    John and William Bastard were British surveyor-architects, and civic dignitaries of the town of Blandford Forum in Dorset. John and William generally worked together and are known as the "Bastard brothers"....
     John (c. 1668–1770) and William (c. 1689–1766), British surveyor-architects and civic dignitaries
  • Benjamin Bastard
    Benjamin Bastard

    Benjamin Bastard was a British architect during the first half of the 18th century working in the Dorset area of England. A member of a notable family of west country architect-surveyors and masons, he was related to the Bastard brothers who rebuilt Blandford Forum following its great fire of 1731....
     (died 1772), British architect
  • E. W. Bastard
    E. W. Bastard

    Edward William Bastard was a cricketer who played for Oxford University Cricket Club and Somerset County Cricket Club. Bastard batted left-handed, but is notable as a fine slow left-arm orthodox bowler....
     (1862–1901), Oxford University and Somerset cricketer
  • Edmund Pollexfen Bastard
    Edmund Pollexfen Bastard

    Edmund Pollexfen Bastard was a British Tory politician.He was Member of Parliament for Dartmouth from 1812 to 1816, and for Devon from 1816 to 1830 ....
     (1784–1838), British Tory politician
  • John Bastard
    John Bastard

    John Horatio Bastard was a Cambridge University Cricket Club cricketer who played in six first-class cricket matches between 1838 and 1840. He was born and died in Newcastle upon Tyne....
     (1817–1848), Cambridge University and Marylebone Cricket Club cricketer
  • John Pollexfen Bastard
    John Pollexfen Bastard

    John Pollexfen Bastard was a British Tory politician.He was elected Member of Parliament for Truro and St Austell in 1783 and for the Devon Constituency from 1784....
     (1756–1816), British Tory politician
  • Segar Bastard
    Segar Bastard

    Segar Richard Bastard was an English amateur football player and Referee .Born in Bow, London, London, Bastard played for the now-defunct Upton Park F.C....
     (1854-1921), English international footballer and referee
  • Thomas Bastard
    Thomas Bastard

    The Reverend Thomas Bastard was an England clergyman famed for his published English language epigrams....
     (1565/6-1618), English epigrammatis


See also

  • Bastards (disambiguation)
  • Bastardo (disambiguation)
  • Bastardisation (disambiguation)
  • Baster
    Baster

    The Basters are the descendants of liaisons between the Cape Colony The Netherlands and indigenous African women. They largely live in Namibia and are similar to Coloured or Griqua people in South Africa....
     (from the Dutch word for bastard), a descendant of liaisons between the Cape Colony Dutch and indigenous Africans
  • Bastardista, album of Brazilian singer Célia Mara
    Celia Mara

    C?lia Mara Brazilian singer-songwriter and record producer, has lived since the 1990s in Vienna, Austria and since 2003 also partly in Salvador, Bahia....