Bags vs Bays - What's the difference?
bags | bays |
(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)
(bay)
(obsolete) Baize.
As verbs the difference between bags and bays
is that bags is (australia|new zealand) to reserve for oneself or bags can be (bag) while bays is (bay).As nouns the difference between bags and bays
is that bags is while bays is or bays can be (obsolete) baize.bags
English
Etymology 1
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* 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.