bae
nounnounverbattested in dialogue
- //beɪ//
Darling (term of endearment).
noun
- 1
slangDarling (term of endearment).
And if you actually want to see your bae – you know, like in person – You 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.
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!”
A fresh pic of you and your bae on vacay together? Who wouldn't “like” that?!?
Etymology
Syncopic form of babe or baby. 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
- 1
Asian pear.
Etymology
From Korean 배 (bae).
verb
- 1
To make the sound of a wild animal, to bay.
He's a lamb indeed, that baes like a bear.
...the ewe that will not hear her lamb when it baes will never answer a calf when he bleats.
Etymology
From Old French bay, combined with aphetized form of abay; verbal form Old French baier, abaier.
Forms
- plural
- baes
- past tense
- baed
- past participle
- baed
- present participle
- baeing
- third person singular
- baes