Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A bachelor.
- v. To live alone and keep house as a bachelor.
- idiom. bach it To bach.
Wiktionary
- n. New Zealand, northern A holiday home, usually small and near the beach, often with only one or two rooms and of simple construction.
- v. US To live apart from women, as with the period when a divorce is in progress (compare bachelor pad).
Etymologies
- Probable shortening of bachelor (Wiktionary)
- Short for bachelor. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“*A NZ holiday cabin was/is called a bach pronounced batch.”
“You can 'bach' it in the house as well as poor old Uncle Jeptha did, I reckon," this woman told the youth.”
“That's why, I guess, I'm what they call a "bach" at forty-four.”
“Don't you know any house, or any place, where we could keep 'bach' together?”
“Vaughan Roderick (Welsh): Dime dime dime, hen blant bach”
“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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
“One exception is the metal Harvard frame — common in dorm rooms and bach pads — which requires a bed skirt for obvious reasons.”
“Five Famous People Who Died of Syphilis gary oldman, johann sebastian bach, Matthew Broderick, modest moussorgsky, rosie o 'donnell, spring equinox”
“Having always done everything the wrong way around, (worked when my peers were in college, gone to college when they were persuing carreers, nursed my children when fellow anthropologists were doing field research, moved my family to the country to use sickle and hoe instead of discussing baby bach tapes …) I always had to excuse myself for what I was.”
“For New Zealand's vacation-style house, or "Kiwi bach," students sheared sheep and "stuffed wool in the walls" for insulation, says team member Nick Officer.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bach’.
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SECOND LETTER A
Words in which the second letter is A
Aa, AAA, Baba, Babe, Babel, AAAA, tangential, baby, bach, back, bad, bade and 90 more...
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people commonly known by their last name
inspired by people commonly known by their first name: people are more likely to know their last name than their first: not famous enough to be eponyms though
picasso, wyeth, matisse, manet, van gogh, rubens, renoir, gauguin, chagall, delacroix, miro, dali and 64 more...
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funny names
funny names
gertrude, vernon, clarence, stanley, edwick, edwick the dead cow, bert, sebastian, yngwie, cliff, gary, barbara and 59 more...
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And another
retrocausality, brusque, gainsay, cheerio, jaundiced, chamois, caw, craw, fudge, bubbler, shebang, bolo and 244 more...
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lotic words of flow
fast flowing, rapid, confluent words
boustrophedon, boustrophedric, thixotrophic, ludic, hesychastic, blend, quaquaversal, phacoemulsification, mordant, glissando, vatic, tournure and 233 more...
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angelken's Words
apple, ipod, macbook pro, leopard, tiger, angel, motion, mule, renaissance, iphone, google, aqua and 15 more...
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A Kea Sat On My Chilly Bin
Words from the Shaky Isles.
boy racer, aotearoa, bach, wop-wops, treaty of waitangi, kumara, chilly bin, cow-cocky, zambuck, waikikamukau, tinbum, eh and 12 more...
Tweets
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madmouth an archaic North American phrasal verb: to bach it, that is, take up a bach for your living quarters. May 26, 2009
bilby The NZ version rhymes with pumpkin patch. I'm told it is a shortening of bachelor house or bachelor pad. May 26, 2009
qroqqa 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 25, 2009
yarb 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!" Apr 30, 2008