Haramzada

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A bastard. South-Asia, vulgar

    "He had told her, too, how, sick and shaken with the fever their negligence had bred, crippled by the loss of his pet clerk, and savagely angry at the desolation in his charge, he had once damned the collective eyes of his "intelligent local board" for a set of haramzadas."

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"He had told her, too, how, sick and shaken with the fever their negligence had bred, crippled by the loss of his pet clerk, and savagely angry at the desolation in his charge, he had once damned the collective eyes of his "intelligent local board" for a set of haramzadas."

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindustani حرام زادہ / हरामज़ादा (harāmzādā), from Classical Persian حرامزاده (harām-zāda).

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