bach

Probable shortening of bachelor.

• IPA^(key): /bæt͡ʃ/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /bɛtʃ/

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• Rhymes: -ætʃ
• Homophone: batch

bach (plural baches)

1. (New Zealand, northern) A holiday home, usually small and near the beach, often with only one or two rooms and of simple construction.

• crib (New Zealand, in southern South Island)

bach (third-person singular simple present baches, present participle baching, simple past and past participle bached)

1. (US) To live apart from women, as during the period when a divorce is in progress. (Compare bachelor pad.)

• Bach (New Zealand) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Onomatopoeic.

• IPA^(key): /bax/

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• Rhymes: -ax
• Syllabification: bach

bach

1. boom, bam, pow, wham (used when imitating a sudden, hard hit)

• Sometimes reduplicated.

• bach in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• bach in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• IPA^(key): /baːχ/
• Rhymes: -aːχ

From Middle Welsh bych, from Proto-Brythonic *bɨx, from Proto-Celtic *biggos.

bach (feminine singular bach, plural bach, equative lleied, comparative llai, superlative lleiaf)

1. small, little, short

   Na, rwy'n mynd ar y trên bach.[1]

   No, I'm taking the little train.

2. not fully-grown or developed, young
3. insignificant, unimportant, humble
4. small (of business, etc.)
5. lowercase (of letter)

• bychan

• to bach (“circumflex”)
• tŷ bach (“toilet, loo”)

From Middle Welsh and Old Welsh bach, from Proto-Celtic *bakkos, from Proto-Indo-European *bak-.

bach m (plural bachau)

1. hook
2. hinge

   Synonym: colfach

3. (typography) bracket, brace

• bach cyrliog
• bach petryal

• bachiad
• bachog
• bachu
• bachyn

• cigfach
• colfach
• crogfach
• gafaelfach

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “bach”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies