Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A bachelor.
- intransitive verb To live alone and keep house as a bachelor.
- idiom (bach it) To bach.
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- noun New Zealand, northern A
holiday home , usually small and near thebeach , often with only one or two rooms and of simple construction. - verb US To live apart from women, as with the period when a divorce is in progress (compare
bachelor pad ).
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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*A NZ holiday cabin was/is called a bach pronounced batch.
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*A NZ holiday cabin was/is called a bach pronounced batch.
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"You can 'bach' it in the house as well as poor old Uncle Jeptha did, I reckon," this woman told the youth.
Hiram the Young Farmer Burbank L. Todd
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That's why, I guess, I'm what they call a "bach" at forty-four.
Cape Cod Ballads, and Other Verse Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907
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"Don't you know any house, or any place, where we could keep 'bach' together?"
The Hoosier School-boy Edward Eggleston 1869
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Thu 10/15/09 11: 07 PM omgg i love lauren graham and i am soooo happy the she is coming bach to t. v..i am only going to watch parenthood because lauren in going to be in it … i am also a very big gilmore girls fan only because lauren is in it she is the best there is … I LOVE LAUREN GRAHAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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One exception is the metal Harvard frame — common in dorm rooms and bach pads — which requires a bed skirt for obvious reasons.
Bye-Bye, Bed Skirts Sara Ruffin Costello 2010
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Five Famous People Who Died of Syphilis gary oldman, johann sebastian bach, Matthew Broderick, modest moussorgsky, rosie o 'donnell, spring equinox
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Vaughan Roderick (Welsh): Dime dime dime, hen blant bach
The week that was 2009
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Vaughan Roderick (Welsh): Dime dime dime, hen blant bach
Archive 2009-04-01 2009
yarb commented on the word bach
In Wales, a term of endearment similar to butty. Directly from Welsh, in which the literal meaning is little or lesser.
E.g. "alright bach, how you keeping? ages it's been since I seen you last!"
April 30, 2008
qroqqa commented on the word bach
Also (New Zealand) a holiday home at the beach. See Keri Hulme passim, or this Antarctic spokesperson (BBC news, 25-05-09):
The A-Frame represented something uniquely Kiwi in Antarctica. It was the concept of a mountain hut mixed with a bach and it said something about who we are.
May 26, 2009
bilby commented on the word bach
The NZ version rhymes with pumpkin patch. I'm told it is a shortening of bachelor house or bachelor pad.
May 26, 2009
madmouth commented on the word bach
an archaic North American phrasal verb: to bach it, that is, take up a bach for your living quarters.
May 26, 2009