Baas vs Bahs - What's the difference?
baas | bahs |
(South Africa) An employer, a boss. Frequently as a form of address.
*1979 , , A Dry White Season , Vintage 1998, p. 40:
*:‘That's not what I'm complaining about, Baas ,’ said Gordon.
(baa)
* {{quote-book, year=1949, author=Stanley Grauman Weinbaum, title=The Worlds of If, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Bah! Many bahs ! The future or the past—pfui! }}
* {{quote-book, year=1892, author=Grace E. King, title=Balcony Stories, chapter=, edition=
, passage=And the gentlemen,--her preux chevaliers ,--they were burning with other passions than those which had driven them to her knees, encountering a little more serious response than "bahs " and shrugs. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=Paul Laurence Dunbar, title=The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Wen de hinges creak an' cry, An' de bahs go slantin' down, You kin reckon dat hit's time Fu' to cas' yo' eye erroun', 'Cause daih ain't no 'sputin' dis, Hit's de trues' sign to show Dat daih 's cou'tin' goin' on Wen de ol' front gate sags low. }}
* {{quote-news, year=1990, date=May 25, author=John Powers, title=The Year of the Tourist, work=Chicago Reader
, passage=As you walk down Bangkok's notorious Patpong Road ("Pussy open bottle show, bahs ?"), you eventually come across Blu Jeans Country Bar--"Hangovers Installed and Serviced." }}
As nouns the difference between baas and bahs
is that baas is (south africa) an employer, a boss frequently as a form of address or baas can be while bahs is or bahs can be .As a verb baas
is (baa).baas
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From (etyl) baas.Noun
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* * * ----bahs
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