The Basters are a Southern African ethnic group descended from White European men and Black African women, usually of Khoisan origin, but occasionally also enslaved women from the Cape, who resided in the Dutch Cape Colony in the 18th century.

Is baster a bad word?

Bastard used to be a not nice thing you called a child whose parents weren't married. But now it's a more general insult hurled toward a jerk or bad person. Bastard can also simply mean "fraudulent."

What is a baster?

: one who bastes garments or other articles : one who sews something with long, loose stitches Basters place parts in position and fasten them by hand with coarse running stitches, generally making only a temporary fastening.—