Pronunciations (5)
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/bæt͡ʃ/
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/bɛtʃ/
Pronunciation notes
- New-Zealand
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bætʃ
Pronunciation notes
- US
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batʃ
Pronunciation notes
- GB
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bɛtʃ
Pronunciation notes
- NZ
Noun
A bachelor.
Usage- US usage
- Archaic
- Slang
A small hut, especially for a man living alone.
Usage- New-Zealand
Now specifically, a holiday home, typically a small, simple house of one or two rooms on the beach.
Usage- New-Zealand
- Examples
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She stops the car by an ochre-coloured bach at the end of the beachline, by the shelter of a massive thicket of African thorn.
Even before he began his chores he sunbathed naked against the east wall of the bach for half an hour.
More examples (1)
From 1931 until his death in 1982, Sargeson lived a monastic life in a bach at Takapuna, writing in the mornings and tending his garden and entertaining friends in the latter part of the day.
Verb
To live as a bachelor; (chiefly of a man) to live without women, and do one's own cooking, housekeeping etc.
Usage- Australia
- Canada
- New-Zealand
- US usage
- Archaic
- Examples
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I hurried home to the tent—I was batching with a carpenter.
Verb
lead a bachelor's existence
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