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bastardish

adj

Etymology

From bastard + -ish.

  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 bastardish — “bastard + ish”

Definitions

  1. Like or characteristic of a bastard

    Like or characteristic of a bastard; bastardised

    • "[...] Fresh from victory, the bastardish swine."
    • But the bastardish mixture in the work of Per Olov Enquist is congenial to express both, especially the subtle dependency and interaction between them.
    • Disgusting, unfriendly, rotten, fucking sordid place with heaps of unfriendly, bastardish, rude, dangerous, mother-fucking assholes either hassling you with their shit or looking for a fight. Dakar is pure, sheer rot. I HATE the place.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for bastardish. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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