bastard vs snake

bastard

noun
  • A contemptible, inconsiderate, overly or arrogantly rude or spiteful person. 

  • A person deserving of pity. 

  • A sweet wine. 

  • A man, a fellow, a male friend. 

  • Something extremely difficult or unpleasant to deal with. 

  • A bastard file. 

  • A sword that is midway in length between a short-sword and a long sword; also bastard sword. 

  • An inferior quality of soft brown sugar, obtained from syrups that have been boiled several times. 

  • A large mould for straining sugar. 

  • A writing paper of a particular size. 

  • A child who does not know their father. 

  • A mongrel (biological cross between different breeds, groups or varieties). 

  • A variation that is not genuine; something irregular or inferior or of dubious origin, fake or counterfeit. 

adj
  • Spurious, lacking authenticity: counterfeit, fake. 

  • Abbreviated, as the half title in a page preceding the full title page of a book. 

  • Used in the vernacular name of a species to indicate that it is similar in some way to another species, often (but not always) one of another genus. 

  • Consisting of one predominant color blended with small amounts of complementary color; used to replicate natural light because of their warmer appearance. 

  • Of abnormal, irregular or otherwise inferior qualities (size, shape etc). 

  • Of or like a bastard (bad person). 

  • Of or like a bastard (illegitimate human descendant). 

  • Very unpleasant. 

  • Of or like a mongrel, bastardized creature/cross. 

  • Imperfect; not spoken or written well or in the classical style; broken. 

intj
  • Exclamation of strong dismay or strong sense of being upset. 

snake

noun
  • Somebody who acts deceitfully for social gain. 

  • A series of Bézier curves. 

  • The seventh Lenormand card. 

  • A flavoured jube (confectionary) in the shape of a snake. 

  • A tool to aid cable pulling. 

  • A legless reptile of the suborder Serpentes with a long, thin body and a fork-shaped tongue. 

  • A treacherous person; a rat. 

  • Trouser snake; the penis. 

  • An informer; a rat. 

  • A tool for unclogging plumbing. 

verb
  • To wind round spirally, as a large rope with a smaller, or with cord, the small rope lying in the spaces between the strands of the large one; to worm. 

  • To inform; to rat. 

  • To clean using a plumbing snake. 

  • To follow or move in a winding route. 

  • To steal slyly. 

  • To drag or draw, as a snake from a hole; often with out. 

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