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Bags vs Bays - What's the difference?

bags | bays |

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

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

    * ----

    bays

    English

    Etymology 1

    Inflections.

    Noun

    (head)
  • Verb

    (head)
  • (bay)
  • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) baies, feminine plural form of .

    Noun

    (-)
  • (obsolete) Baize.