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baas

[ba, bah] Origin

baa

[ba, bah] verb, baaed, baa·ing, noun
verb (used without object)
1.
to make the sound of a sheep; bleat.
noun
2.
the bleating cry of a sheep.

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.

Origin:
1580–90; imitative
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baas (bɑːs)
 
n
a South African word for a boss: often used by Black or Coloured people addressing a White manager or overseer
 
[C17: from Afrikaans, from Middle Dutch baes master; see boss1]

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baa
imitative sound of a sheep, attested from 1580s, but probably older as baa is recorded before this a name for a child's toy sheep.
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