son of a whore

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Noun

son of a whore (plural sons of whores)

1. The son of unmarried parents, an illegitimate child, a bastard.

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

2. (derogatory, slang) An objectionable person.
   • 1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […], →OCLC, page 77:

     Well, mon cher monsieur l'Anglais, may I inform you that you are the son of a whore?

3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see son,‎ whore. (the son of a prostitute)

Synonyms

• bastard
• son of a bitch
• whoreson

Translations

objectionable person

• Armenian: բոզի տղա (bozi tġa)
• Azerbaijani: anası qəhbə, qəhbənin balası, peysər
• Breton: mab c'hast m
• Bulgarian: син на курва m (sin na kurva)
• Catalan: fill de puta m, filla de puta f
• Dutch: hoerenjong (nl) m
• French: fils de pute (fr) m, fils de putain (fr) m

  Old French: fil a putain m

• Galician: fillo de puta m, filla de puta f
• German: Hurensohn (de) m, Dirnensohn m
• Greek: πουτάνας γιος m (poutánas gios)
• Hebrew: בן זונה (he) m (ben zona)
• Hungarian: kurvafi
• Irish: mac striapaí m
• Italian: figlio di puttana (it) m, figlio di una mignotta (it) (Rome)
• Macedonian: курвин син m (kurvin sin)
• Marathi: रांडेचा m (rāṇḍecā), शिंदळीचा m (śindḷīcā)
• Polish: sukinsyn (pl) m
• Portuguese: filho da puta (pt) m
• Romanian: fiu de curvă m
• Russian: су́кин сы́н (ru) m (súkin sýn)
• Scottish Gaelic: mac na galla m, mac strìopaich (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: кучкин син m

  Roman: kučkin sin m

• Spanish: hijo de puta (es) m
• Swedish: horunge (sv)
• Turkish: orospu çocuğu (tr)