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Bags vs Bahs - What's the difference?

bags | bahs |

As nouns the difference between bags and bahs

is that bags is while bahs is or bahs can be .

As a verb bags

is (australia|new zealand) to reserve for oneself or bags can be (bag).

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

    * ----

    bahs

    English

    Etymology 1

    See bah

    Noun

    (head)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1949, author=Stanley Grauman Weinbaum, title=The Worlds of If, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Bah! Many bahs ! The future or the past—pfui! }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1892, author=Grace E. King, title=Balcony Stories, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , 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. }}

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (-)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1922, author=Paul Laurence Dunbar, title=The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , 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 citation
    • , 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." }}

    Anagrams

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