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bastard-dom

noun

Etymology

From bastard + -dom.

  1. derived from *bʰendʰ-✻ — “to tie, bind”
  2. derived from *banstuz✻ — “bond, connection, relationship, marriage with a second woman of lower status”
  3. derived from *bāst✻ — “marriage, relationship”
  4. derived from bastardus
  5. derived from bastard
  6. inherited from bastard
  7. inherited from bastard
  8. suffixed as bastard-dom — “bastard + dom”

Definitions

  1. The condition, quality, or realm of a bastard

    The condition, quality, or realm of a bastard; bastards collectively

    • There are so many eligible fathers in bastarddom.
    • It has been untenanted since the death of Lord Raspberry's aunt, "Lady Dolly Dray, the novelist, whose fat resources were built from the scurrilous, scandalising spiteful scions of bastarddom always found trampling on the heels of fame".
    • 'That is new a level of bastard-dom.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA