bastard-dom

noun

The condition, quality, or realm of a bastard; bastards collectively

Meanings

nounbastard-dom (uncountable)

alternative bastarddom

  1. rareuncountableThe condition, quality, or realm of a bastard; bastards collectively

    'That is new a level of bastard-dom.

    2014, Bea Longworth, In Too Deep
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    There are so many eligible fathers in bastarddom.

    1963, Lawrence Edwards, Gravel in My Shoe

    It has been untenanted since the death of Lord Raspberry's aunt, "Lady Dolly Dray, the novelist, whose fat resources were built from the scurrilous, scandalising spiteful scions of bastarddom always found trampling on the heels of fame".

    1969, Jack Loudan, O rare Amanda!: the life of Amanda McKittrick Ros - Page 138

    You knew, before they'd even done anything, that these kids were trouble. Or, as Parker told the National Post in 1998, “Third grade is really the time when you are at your peak of bastard-dom. That's where the gold mine is.”

    2014, Dave Thompson, South Park FAQ

    Now you wanna go off all half-cocked and take on one of the most powerful bastards in all of bastard-dom?

    2015, Peter J Larrivee, Revenant

Origin

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