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BASTARD: Middle English; via Old French from medieval Latin bastardus, probably from bastum ‘packsaddle’; compare with Old French fils de bast, literally ‘packsaddle son’ (i.e. the son of a mule driver who uses a packsaddle for a pillow and is gone by morning)
BATMAN:mid 18th cent. (originally denoting an orderly in charge of the bat horse pack-horse which carried the officer's baggage): from Old French bat (from medieval Latin bastum ‘packsaddle’) + man.
Oh, I cheated all right; straight from the horse's mouth, (my B&M dict) all the above stuff. Am still stumped by my searches for the good Doctor.
Mav, why the comma and space between post and card. Is there something there or is spot the difference getting to me?
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