bae
See also: Appendix:Variations of "bae"
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /beɪ/, enPR: bā
Audio (CA) (file) - Rhymes: -eɪ
- Homophone: bay
Etymology 1
From babe or baby by shortening. Notably, it is sometimes incorrectly linked to the unrelated Danish word bæ (“poop”). Sometimes claimed to derive from “Before Anyone Else”, a possible backronym.
Noun
bae (plural baes)
- (slang) Darling (term of endearment).
- 2013, "Jack", "Jack & Jill: On High School Relationships", The Torch (St. John's University), Volume 91, Issue 5, 28 August 2013, page 9:
- And if you actually want to see your bae – you know, like in person – You[sic] better set aside some of your refund check to pay for the $26 train ticket to a school that lingers outside of the tri-state area.
- 2014, Laken Howard, "Pillow Talk: Let's talk about V-day", The Current (entertainment insert of The Daily Northwestern, Northwestern University), 13 February 2014, page 3:
- Your newsfeed gets clogged with statuses like “Happy Valentine’s Day to my bae! I’ve loved you so much ever since we first met three months, eight days, 11 hours and 27 minutes ago!”
- 2014, "How Steamy Is Your PDA?", Seventeen, June/July 2014, page 98:
- A fresh pic of you and your bae on vacay together? Who wouldn't “like” that?!?
- For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:bae.
- Synonyms: babe, baby, darling, dear, love, sweetheart, loved one, significant other, special someone
- 2013, "Jack", "Jack & Jill: On High School Relationships", The Torch (St. John's University), Volume 91, Issue 5, 28 August 2013, page 9:
Derived terms
Etymology 3
From Old French bay, combined with aphesized form of abay; verbal form Old French baier, abaier.
Verb
bae (third-person singular simple present baes, present participle -ing, simple past and past participle -ed)
- (intransitive) To make the sound of a wild animal, to bay.
- c. 1608, Shakespeare, William, Coriolanus, act 2, scene 1, lines 10:
- He's a lamb indeed, that baes like a bear.
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Bislama
Welsh
Pronunciation
- (North Wales) IPA(key): /baːɨ̯/
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /bai̯/
Zhuang
Pronunciation
- (Standard Zhuang) IPA(key): /pai˨˦/
- Tone numbers: bae1
- Hyphenation: bae
Etymology 1
From Proto-Tai *pajᴬ (“to go”). Cognate with Thai ไป (bpai), Northern Thai ᨻᩱ (pai), Khün ᨻᩱ (pai), Lao ໄປ (pai), Lü ᦺᦔ (ṗay) and ᦺᦗ (pay), Tai Dam ꪼꪜ, Shan ပႆ (pǎy), Bouyei bail.
Verb
Derived terms
- baema
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