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noun bax Welsh Used as a term of endearment, often after a personal name. Thomas bach, you are looking tired
Origin Welsh, literally 'little'. verb batʃ [no object]Australian, NZ informal (especially of a man) live alone and do one's own cooking and housekeeping. Baldy bached in a hut down the road a bit Example sentencesExamples - At first Joe bached in an old house on the farm, but later built a new house doing most of the building himself.
- Keith refers to their time in the house as ‘baching’, although he was only 16-and-a-half at the time.
- It must have been the first Saturday that we were left ‘baching‘.
noun batʃ NZ informal A small holiday house. Example sentencesExamples - Boatsheds were built along the lake edge at Kerr Bay and baches were built among the beech trees on the slopes above the bay.
- Removal of the baches was required under the North Canterbury Conservation Board's 1998 plan for the reserve.
- I have also heard, and certainly saw on our boat trip in, that there are many privately owned baches which can be rented.
- He spent all his time at the bach out on the deck or in the house reading, except when they entertained.
- The seaside baches have become a lot bigger and more posh in the last 50 years than they used to be, and cost a lot more to buy.
Origin Late 19th century (as a verb): abbreviation of bachelor. |