(n) A mountainous republic in south-eastern Asia on the Bay of Bengal now known as (n) A person who is annoying, silly or who you feel sympathy for, or a thing that is annoying or difficult to doīum: (n) The part of the body that you sit on your botty.īurma: 1. (interjection) A swear word often used to express annoyanceĢ. Occasionally found played in cheese shops.īrontosaurus: (n) A dinosaur that is thin at one end, much, much thicker in the middle and then thin again at the far end.īugger: 1. (n) An inhabitant of the planet Skyronīlimey: (Interjection) An informal expression of surprise.īloke: (n) A man, often one who is considered to be ordinary.īloody: (adj.) (adv.) Used to emphasize an adjective, adverb or nounīotty: (n) A childish term referring to the bottom.īouzouki: (n) A long-necked stringed instrument of Greek origin that resembles a mandolin with a long fretted neck and usually pear-shaped body. (n) A white, sweet milk pudding thickened with cornstarch or gelatine and flavoured with vanilla or rum.Ģ. Ownership of material goods, which have a tradition of self-government.īally: (adj.) Word used to intensify a statement – dated slang.īlancmange: 1. You do not get wafers with albatrosses.Ĭommune: (n) A settlement of people based upon common (n) A sea bird flavoured refreshment sold in cinemas by a person They are found chiefly in the southern hemisphere.Ģ. They are the largest of sea birds,Ĭapable of long-continued flight, and are often seen at great distancesįrom the land.
(n) A web-footed bird, of the genus Diomedea, of Maltreat the Abbos – if there’s anybody watching.Īlbatross: 1. Philosophy Faculty at the University of Wallamalloo are forbidden to It is used of things spurious or not genuine, having the appearance of being genuine, of abnormal or irregular shape or size, and of mongrels or mixed breeds.Abbos: (n). Among the "bastard" words in Halliwell-Phillipps' "Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words" are avetrol, chance-bairn, by-blow, harecoppe, horcop, and gimbo ("a bastard's bastard").Īs an adjective from late 14c. Its use as a generic vulgar term of abuse for a man is attested from 1830. The figurative sense of "thing not pure or genuine" is by late 14c.
An alternative possibly is that the word is from Proto-Germanic *banstiz "barn," equally suggestive of low origin.Ĭompare German bänkling "bastard child begotten on a bench" (and not in a marriage bed), the source of English bantling (1590s) "brat, small child." Bastard was not always regarded as a stigma the Conqueror is referred to in state documents as "William the Bastard." "illegitimate child," early 13c., from Old French bastard "acknowledged child of a nobleman by a woman other than his wife" (11c., Modern French bâtard), probably from fils de bast "packsaddle son," meaning a child conceived on an improvised bed (saddles often doubled as beds while traveling), with pejorative ending -art (see -ard).
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