bastard — OET

bastard

noun

1 archaic he had fathered a bastard:

illegitimate child, child born out of wedlock;

dated love child, by-blow;

archaic natural child/son/daughter.

2 derogatory the director's an arrogant bastard:

scoundrel, villain, rogue, rascal, brute, animal, weasel, snake, monster, ogre, wretch, devil, good-for-nothing, reprobate, wrongdoer, evil-doer;

Spanish picaro;

informal scumbag, pig, swine, louse, hound, cur, rat, beast, son of a bitch, SOB, low life, skunk, nasty piece of work, ratbag, wrong 'un;

British, informal git, toerag, scrote, blighter, bad lot;

Irish, informal spalpeen, sleeveen;

North American, informal fink, rat fink;

informal , mainly North American butthole;

West Indian, informal scamp;

Australian, New Zealand, informal dingo;

informal , dated cad, heel, bad egg, dastard, knave, stinker;

British, informal , dated rotter, bounder;

archaic blackguard, miscreant, varlet, vagabond, rapscallion, whoreson;

vulgar slang shit, fucker;

British, vulgar slang wanker, tosser, arsehole, sod, bugger;

North American, vulgar slang fuck, motherfucker, asshole, mofo, mother.

adjective

1 archaic a bastard child:

illegitimate, born out of wedlock;

archaic natural.

2 a bastard language:

hybrid, alloyed;

adulterated, impure, inferior.

bastard Oxford Dictionary of English