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单词 old baas
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old baasn.

Brit. /ˈəʊl(d) ˌbɑːs/, U.S. /ˈoʊl(d) ˌbɑs/, South African English /ˈəʊl(d) ˌbɑːs/
Forms: also with capital initials.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: old adj., baas n.
Etymology: < old adj. + baas n., as alteration of oubaas n.
South African. Now widely considered offensive.
= oubaas n.
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society > occupation and work > worker > employer > [noun]
mastereOE
employer1600
baas1625
governor1783
old baas1882
the world > people > person > old person > old man > [noun]
old maneOE
bevara1275
beauperec1300
vieillard1475
Nestor?c1510
old gentleman1526
haga1529
velyarda1529
old fellow?1555
old sire1557
granfer1564
vecchioc1570
ageman1571
grave-porer1582
grandsire1595
huddle-duddle1599
elder1600
pantaloon1602
cuffc1616
crone1630
old boya1637
codger?1738
dry-beard1749
eld1796
patriarch1819
oubaas1824
old chap1840
pap1844
pop1844
tad1877
old baas1882
senex1898
finger1904
AK1911
alte kacker1911
poppa stoppa1944
madala1960
Ntate1975
society > authority > rule or government > rule or government of family or tribe > head of family, tribe, or clan > [noun] > head of household
houselordOE
husbandOE
lordOE
goodmanc1275
husbandmanc1330
master1536
man of the house1539
housemaster1593
major-domo1649
house head1864
old baas1882
1882 C. Du Val With Show through Southern Afr. I. 63 ‘Lots of fruit in the orchard, and the old Baas says you can help yourselves,’ says Rogers the guard.
1899 B. Mitford Weird of Deadly Hollow 242 Old Baas Rendlesams will get the shower if there is one.
1912 H. R. Haggard Marie xviii. 263 I think the old baas is kransick and not safe. He looks like one who is going to harm someone.
1942 S. Cloete Hill of Doves (U.K. ed.) 37 Drive fast, indeed! They should have seen old Tanta Anna de Jong drive. You ask the Old Baas how she drove. Like Jehu.
1976 S. Cloete Chetoko 112 When the old Baas and I were young, the world was beautiful.
1994 Toronto Star (Nexis) 29 Apr. a27 So few of the blacks they interview express hatred for the old baas over whom they soon will have power.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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