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Baas vs Bags - What's the difference?

baas | bags |

As nouns the difference between baas and bags

is that baas is an employer, a boss. Frequently as a form of address while bags is plural of lang=en.

As verbs the difference between baas and bags

is that baas is third-person singular of baa while bags is to reserve for oneself.

baas

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) baas.

Noun

(es)
  • (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.
  • Etymology 2

    Inflected forms.

    Noun

    (head)
  • Verb

    (head)
  • (baa)
  • Anagrams

    * * * ----

    bags

    English

    Etymology 1

    From

    Alternative forms

    * baggs

    Verb

    (es)
  • (Australia, New Zealand) To reserve for oneself.
  • * 2006 , Jill Golden, Inventing Beatrice , page 81,
  • So you were thrilled, and we picked out the mare for Harriet, and you bagsed the black, and I had the chestnut, and we all rode away one day.
  • * 2007 , Debra Oswald. Getting Air , page 66,
  • Mum bagsed being the priestess who got to dangle Stone over the volcano by his ankles.
  • * 2008 , Kate Dellar-Evans, Best of Friends: The First Thirty Years of the Friendly Street Poets , page 13,
  • Battered armchairs and a sofa were bagsed first; they were more comfortable than the school chairs that could get hard.
  • * 2009 , J. Lodge, Black Mail , page 316,
  • ‘Hey, it?s my turn in the front,’ Kalista called as she realised her brother had bagsed the front seat.
    Synonyms
    * (US) have dibs on

    Etymology 2

    From bag .

    Noun

    (head)
  • (uncountable) Eye circles.
  • Verb

    (head)
  • (bag)
  • Anagrams

    * ----