Baas vs Bags - What's the difference?
baas | bags |
(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)
(Australia, New Zealand) To reserve for oneself.
* 2006 , Jill Golden, Inventing Beatrice ,
* 2007 , Debra Oswald. Getting Air ,
* 2008 , Kate Dellar-Evans, Best of Friends: The First Thirty Years of the Friendly Street Poets ,
* 2009 , J. Lodge, Black Mail ,
(uncountable) Eye circles.
(bag)
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)Etymology 2
Inflected forms.Noun
(head)Verb
(head)Anagrams
* * * ----bags
English
Etymology 1
FromAlternative forms
* baggsVerb
(es)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.
page 66,
- Mum bagsed being the priestess who got to dangle Stone over the volcano by his ankles.
page 13,
- Battered armchairs and a sofa were bagsed first; they were more comfortable than the school chairs that could get hard.
page 316,
- ‘Hey, it?s my turn in the front,’ Kalista called as she realised her brother had bagsed the front seat.