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bastard
noun- a despised or disrespected person; a derogatory insult or challenging form of address to someone considered objectionable UK, 1598
Originally, “a person born out of wedlock”, the value of the insult has survived since C16 and ignored the current social acceptance of illegitimate status. - The Australian will endure an incredible amount of abuse from his friends, and none at all from anybody else. So don’t call him a bastard just because you hear somebody else do so. — Nino Culotta (John O’Grady), They’re A Weird Mob, p. 158, 1957
- You’ve been a proper bastard all day. — Jean Brooks, The Opal Witch, p. 40, 1967
- I always though he was a bit of a bastard.. — Janie Stagestruck, p. 50, 1972
- All pommies are bastards, bastards or worse. / And England is the arsehole of the universe. — The Adventures of Barry McKenzie, 1972
- The sense of illegitimacy of birth is not present. “Run the bastards over.” [Advice by Sir Robert Askin (Premier of NSW) to President Lyndon Johnston when students laid down before his motorcade in 1966] — Bill Hornadge, The Ugly Australian, p. 236, 1975
- Arseholes, bastards, fucking cunts and pricks — Ian Dury, Plaistow Patricia, 1977
- There are consequences to breaking ethheart of a murdering bastard. You experienced some of them. — Kill Bill, 2003
- a fellow, a man US, 1861
With reduction, from partial to almost full, of the negative sense. - There’s no bastard been near this joint for days. — Eric Lambert, The Veterans, p. 126, 1954
- You will be called a bastard because you are a good bloke, but if you are called a bludger you probably are one. — Nino Culotta (John O’Grady), They’re A Weird Mob, p. 203, 1957
- That’s why I’ve always admired you, you bastard, respected you, because you’ve always been like a rock[.] — W.R. Bennett, Target Turin, p. 65, 1962
- “Yer a silly bastard” may be taken as kindly, meaning that you’ve done something vaguely foolish but nobody is going to worry about it. “You stupid bastard”, on the other hand, may be accompanied by a flying fist. — Sue Rhodes, Now you’ll think I’m awful, p. 104, 1967
- Cripes, I feel like all me birthdays have come at once! What a decent bunch of bastards! — Barry Humphries, The Wonderful World of Barry McKenzie, p. 9, 1968
- The trouble with you bastards from the East, you always want big beers. — John O’Grady, It’s Your Shout, Mate!, p. 15, 1972
- You’re that writer bastard, ain’t yer? — Sam Weller, Old Bastards I Have Met, p. 22, 1979
- used as a term of endearment AUSTRALIA, 1882
Affectionate usage with no pejorative connotation; whilst by no means exclusive to Australia in this sense, it is almost the defining Australian cliché; on a par with “G’day”. Recorded in New Zealand: “You are a right bastard, aren’t you?”. - Bazza you old bastard! Jeez it’s good to see youse! — Barry Humphries, Bazza Pulls It Off!, 1971
- — Louis S. Leland, A Personal Kiwi-Yankee Dictionary, p. 11, 1984
- a thing, especially one causing problems or distress AUSTRALIA, 1915
- It’ll be a bastard if we ’as to turn to and bend some ’eavy canvass on ’er. — Robert S. Close, Loe Me Sailor, pp. 180–1945
- Nicks: the good, the bad and the bastard–i.e., the merits and demerits of Her Majesty’s Prisons. — Charles Raven, Underworld Nights, p. 197, 1956
- I think Australian is a bastard of a language. — Nino Culotta (John O’Grady), They’re A Weird Mob, p. 26, 1957
- “And how did they come to build a city in a swamp?” “Drained the bastard, that’s how.” — John O’Grady, It’s Your Shout, Mate!, p. 74, 1972
- This last trip has been a bastard, what with the rain and the older tunnels, so dilapidated that they could collapse at any moment[.] — Petru Popescu, The Last Wave, p. 8, 1977
- He went crook. He said, “You can eat them bastards [goannas] out in the bush, but not in my bloody camp!” — Herb Wharton, Cattle Camp, p. 97, 1994
▶ as a bastard
used to intensify a personal quality or condition UK- I’m horny as a bastard but not for just anyone only that Victor. — Niall Griffiths, Kelly + Victor, p. 178, 2002
▶ happy as a bastard on Father’s Day
extremely unhappy AUSTRALIA
The idea is that a bastard does not know their father and so cannot celebrate on Father’s Day. (Note that “basket” used below is a euphemism).- “What’s wrong with him?” rasped Kate. “Happy as a basket on Father’s Day,” came the useless reply from the P.O. — John Wynnum, Tar Dust, p. 46, 1962
- We are in more trouble than a bastard on Father’s Day[.] — Frank Hardy, The Outcasts of Foolgarah, p. 127, 1971
▶ like a bastard
used to intensify a personal quality or condition AUSTRALIA- Rainin’ like a bastard, she was. — Nino Culotta (John O’Grady), Gone Fishin’, p. 104, 1962
- — John Birmingham, He Died With a Felafel in his Hand, p. 11, 1994
- It hurt like a bastard but Henry was already falling backwards[.] — Harrison Biscuit, The Search for Savage Henry, p. 102, 1995
- This fuckin bangin [excellent] E [MDMA]. Already ad an arf, shared one with that Scouse twat Colm like, an I’m comin up like a bastard. — Niall Griffiths, Sheepshagger, p. 161, 2001
▶ lonely as a bastard on father’s day
extremely lonely AUSTRALIA- I’m as lonely as a bastard on father’s day. — Barry Humphries, A Nice Night’s Entertainment, p. 205, 1981
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