baas
/ (bɑːs) /
a South African word for a boss: often used by Black or Coloured people addressing a White manager or overseer
Origin of baas
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How to use baas in a sentence
One baas was bigger than the other, and on his chest and on his body were pictures of birds, and beasts, and strange things.
Uncanny Tales | VariousWe knew then that his medicine was bad medicine, otherwise the white baas without the pictures could not have killed him.
Uncanny Tales | VariousSo we were wroth and made to slay the other baas, but he shot us down with a fire stick and returned to his own country in haste.
Uncanny Tales | VariousThey are just as much a manufactured article as the little woolly "baa-baas" in the baby's Noah's Ark.
The Red Cow and Her Friends | Peter McArthurSome already had them in hand, but delayed opening fire, a word from baas Rynwald restraining them.
The Vee-Boers | Mayne Reid
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