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baas

baas |bɑːs | ▶noun S. African, often offensive a supervisor or employer, especially a white man in charge of coloured or black people. ORIGIN Dutch, ‘master ’; compare with boss 1 .

 

baasie

baasie |ˈbɑːsi | ▶noun S. African, often offensive a form of address to a young white male. ORIGIN Afrikaans (from earlier Dutch baasje ), literally ‘little master ’.

 

Oxford Dictionary

baas

baas |bɑːs | ▶noun S. African, often offensive a supervisor or employer, especially a white man in charge of coloured or black people. ORIGIN Dutch, ‘master ’; compare with boss 1 .

 

baasie

baasie |ˈbɑːsi | ▶noun S. African, often offensive a form of address to a young white male. ORIGIN Afrikaans (from earlier Dutch baasje ), literally ‘little master ’.

 

Duden Dictionary

Baas

Baas Substantiv, maskulin norddeutsch, besonders Seemannssprache , der |B aa s |niederländisch baas < mittelniederländisch baes, Herkunft ungeklärt Herr, Meister, Aufseher, Vermittler

 

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