bastard vs hum

bastard

noun
  • A bastard file. 

  • A person deserving of pity. 

  • A sweet wine. 

  • A man, a fellow, a male friend. 

  • Something extremely difficult or unpleasant to deal with. 

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

  • 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. 

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

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. 

hum

noun
  • Unpleasant odour. 

  • A phenomenon, or collection of phenomena, involving widespread reports of a persistent and invasive low-frequency humming, rumbling, or droning noise not audible to all people. 

  • Busy activity, like the buzz of a beehive. 

  • A hummed tune, i.e. created orally with lips closed. 

  • An often indistinct sound resembling human humming. 

verb
  • To produce low sounds which blend continuously 

  • To express by humming. 

  • To reek, smell bad. 

  • To make a sound from the vocal chords without pronouncing any real words, with one's lips closed. 

  • To drone like certain insects naturally do in motion, or sounding similarly 

  • To buzz, be busily active like a beehive 

intj
  • Synonym of um: a noise indicating doubt, uncertainty, &c. 

  • Synonym of hmm: a noise indicating thought, consideration, &c. 

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