Sekirov Dictionary

bach

/bæt͡ʃ/

noun 4
verb 1
forms 4

noun4

(New-Zealand) A small hut, especially for a man living alone.
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(New-Zealand) Now specifically, a holiday home, typically a small, simple house of one or two rooms on the beach.
- She stops the car by an ochre-coloured bach at the end of the beachline, by the shelter of a massive thicket of African thorn. — 1983
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(informal) Clipping of bachelorette.
- Bachelorette party captions for Instagram […] Babes, baches, bikinis, and boats. — 2020
(slang, no longer used) A bachelor.

verb1

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(US, no longer used) To live as a bachelor; (chiefly of a man) to live without women, and do one's own cooking, housekeeping etc.
- I hurried home to the tent—I was batching with a carpenter. — 1900

forms

bached · baching · baches · bachs

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