Definition of: bastard

(bas′tərd) noun
1. An illegitimate child.
2. Any hybrid plant, tree, or animal.
3. Any spurious, irregular, inferior, or counterfeit thing.
4. A refuse sugar from previously boiled sirup.
—adjective
1. Born out of wedlock.
2. False; spurious.
3. Resembling but not typical of the genuine thing: bastard mahogany.
4. Unusual in size, shape, or proportion; abnormal; irregular: bastard type. [<OF bastard <fils de bast packsaddle child; with ref. to the use of the saddle as a bed]