English term
21 books translated
Native in: Russian 
Works in: English to Russian, Russian to English, Spanish to Russian, and 1 more.
bastard love child
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"I cannot believe that these people actually exchange real American currency for this square, steamed mixture of rodent feces and sawdust on a tiny bun. This is the **bastard love child** of a 7-Eleven microwavable meat patty and the entrail drippings of roadkill left to fester on Midwestern highways in the hot July sun. Happily it’s as thin as a Post-it note so as not to avoid inadvertently engaging your gag reflex."
What's the meaning of "bastard love child"?
Thank you.
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Ireland
right word, right place. everytime
Native in: English (Variants: US, Canadian, Irish, UK) 
Works in: French to English, Spanish to English, English, and 1 more.
it's figurative: the shit you get when you combine these things
Yes a "bastard love child" is an illegitimate child but here it has a figurative meaning
"the child" in question here is a burger "this square, steamed mixture of rodent feces and sawdust on a tiny bun" (of course it isn't really made of these ingredients! Just that it seems/looks/tastes like it is!)
The only good thing about this is that it's as very thin, so thin (like a Post-it note) that your gag reflex doesn't happen
And this piece of shit (food) has been brought together it seems by the unholy (illegitimate) combination of "a 7-Eleven (store) microwavable meat patty and the entrail drippings of roadkill left to fester on Midwestern highways in the hot July sun." Yum yum! How appetising! Of course there is no way the second "ingredients" of "roadkill entrails" were used here!
so yes, bastard is both an illegitimate child and is also a term of abuse as Jack said. The "love child" bit is sarcastic and refers to the "parents" of this "love child". Like what sort of love affair was this? Were they mad putting these together?
Not very appetising at all!
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Yasutomo Kanazawa
: I love your explanation and humor.
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Many thanks:-)Yes, the writing itself is really funny. Surprised to see this voted 'non-Pro' as not immediately understandable
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Phoenix III
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Many thanks:-)
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Morad Seif
: Of course, connotation-wise!
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Many thanks:-)
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Tony M
: Yes, for the intended figurative meaning ... which I thought was pretty self-evident by extrapolation from the literal meaning, which is what I assumed was bothering Asker. / I'd have assumed then Asker might have said "I get the literal meaning, but..."
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Many thanks:-) I don't agree that extrapolation from literal is that easy
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Ashutosh Mitra
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Many thanks:-)
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Jack Doughty
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Many thanks:-)
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Kelly McGuire
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illegitimate child, born as a result of a (possibly short-lived) sexual encounter
Here, of course, it is being used figuratively to describe this disgusting food, which the writer suggests was the unwanted result of the 'union' of a "7–11 patty" and "entrail drippings"
It seems it wasn't terribly appetising...
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writeaway
: afaik it has nothing to do with the duration of the sexual encounter
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That's why I said "possibly" to suggest within the character limit that it was not a relation necessarily intended to be long-term.
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Jack Doughty
: Writeaway is right, but you only said "possibly"
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Thanks, jack! Exactly my point; trying to convey 'love' as in 'love affair', rather than 'marriage'
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Phoenix III
: Not at all. This has nothing to do with the by-product of an out of wedlock sex encounter.
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Of course it does! It is just a figurative usage, but the way it is expressed makes that intended meaning abundantly clear.
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Morad Seif
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Thanks, Morad!
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Björn Vrooman
: Cancelling out the unwarranted "disagree," as your succinct explanation - plus the d-box entries by Charles - should be enough, IMHO.
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Thanks, Björn!
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Türkiye
Quality matters most!
Native in: Persian (Farsi)
Works in: English, Persian (Farsi) to English, English to Persian (Farsi)
an illegitimate offspring/child
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Note added at 10 mins (2017-02-12 09:28:45 GMT)
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<A child born out of wedlock (born to unmarried parents).>
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writeaway
: re your explanation. a child born out of wedlock automatically means the parents aren't married.
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Thanks. Nothing else does it mean.
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Phoenix III
: The sentence is not to be taken literally.
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Thanks Phoenix III: I know, but i meant it denotation-wise
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Yvonne Gallagher
: yes, literally what it means
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Thank you
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Tony M
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Sarcastic praise of this *union*, implying *the worst of each, & then some"; then even that'degraded
Then it's made still worse (and funnier) by making it a *bastard* love child (too many details becomes funny by itself) - you could say it's not even a legitimate child, but at this point the literal meaning ceases to be particular important, it's the compounding of deprecating epithets that creates the humor.
Discussion
And thank you for the reference!
The Nadsat teenage slang in "Clockwork Orange" by Anthony Burgess (was turned into a movie, if I remember correctly):
"bratchny bastard брачный (matrimonial), brachny — likely a shortened внебрачный (out-of-wedlock), vnebrachny, even though stripping it of the prefix inverts the meaning"
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:A_Clockwork_Orange
""Love child" is a euphemism for a child born out of wedlock."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_child
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=love child
""Love Child" is a 1968 song released by the Motown label for Diana Ross & the Supremes. [...] "Love Child" also performed well on the soul chart [...] and paved new ground for a major pop hit with its then-controversial subject matter of illegitimacy."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Child_(song)
Actual experience wins.
: an illegitimate child"
bastard
: 1 an illegitimate child
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/love child
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bastard
"love child
n. Derogatory
A child born of parents who are not married to each other."
https://www.ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=love child
"love child
noun
dated
A child born to parents who are not married to each other."
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/us/love_child
etc., etc.
It was not always considered abusive. In the 11th century, William the Conqueror was widely known as William the Bastard, and was welcome with cries of "Long live the Bastard!" (probably would have been a capital offence if it was thought such an insult as it is nowadays).