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bastard
bastard is a 7-letter English word with 14 senses as noun, adjective, and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A "natural" child; a child begotten and born out of wedlock; an illegitimate child; one born of an illicit union. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 11 · 14 senses
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- 1noun
A "natural" child; a child begotten and born out of wedlock; an illegitimate child; one born of an illicit union.
- 2noun
An inferior quality of soft brown sugar, obtained from the sirups that / already had several boilings.
- 3noun
A large size of mold, in which sugar is drained.
- 4noun
A sweet Spanish wine like muscadel in flavor.
- 5noun
A writing paper of a particular size. See Paper.
- 6adjective
Begotten and born out of lawful matrimony; illegitimate. See Bastard., note.
- 7noun
Lacking in genuineness; spurious; false; adulterate; -- applied to things which resemble those which are genuine, but are really not so.
- 8noun
Of an unusual make or proportion; as, a bastard musket; a bastard culverin.
- 9noun
Abbreviated, as the half title in a page preceding the full title page of a book.
- 10transitive verb
To bastardize.
- 11noun
derogatory term for a variation that is not genuine; something irregular or inferior or of dubious origin
"the architecture was a kind of bastard suggesting Gothic but not true Gothic"
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- 12noun
insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous
- 13noun
the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents
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- 14adjective
fraudulent; having a misleading appearance
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