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bastardship

noun

Etymology

From bastard + -ship.

  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 bastardship — “bastard + ship”

Definitions

  1. The state or condition of a bastard

    The state or condition of a bastard; bastardness

    • About 40 years later in a drunken Dell Night moment at the Oak Inn, Tuck let the cat out of the bag, and told Junior of his bastardship, saying, “We really got married in December, not September.

  2. used as a title or form of address

    • “Happy New Year, your bastardship!”

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for bastardship. 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