bait

an baitar bèg

Dar bèg is bait.

head

bait (comparative baitor, superlative dar baitorste)

baitor (comparative)
dar baitorste (superlative)
èar ist bait (masculine predicative singular)
zi ist bait (feminine predicative singular)
is ist bait (neuter predicative singular)
ze zèint bait (plural predicative)
dar baite (definite includes-article masculine nominative singular)
de baita (definite feminine includes-article nominative singular)
's baite (definite includes-article neuter nominative singular)
de baiten (definite includes-article nominative plural)
in baiten (accusative definite includes-article masculine singular)
de baita (accusative definite feminine includes-article singular)
's baite (accusative definite includes-article neuter singular)
de baiten (accusative definite includes-article plural)
me baiten (dative definite includes-article masculine singular)
dar baiten (dative definite feminine includes-article singular)
me baiten (dative definite includes-article neuter singular)
in baiten (dative definite includes-article plural)
an baitar (includes-article indefinite masculine nominative singular)
an baita (feminine includes-article indefinite nominative singular)
an baites (includes-article indefinite neuter nominative singular)
baiten (indefinite nominative plural)
khòone baiten (includes-article indefinite nominative plural)
an baiten (accusative includes-article indefinite masculine singular)
an baita (accusative feminine includes-article indefinite singular)
an baites (accusative includes-article indefinite neuter singular)
baiten (accusative indefinite plural)
khòone baiten (accusative includes-article indefinite plural)
aname baiten (dative includes-article indefinite masculine singular)
anara baiten (dative feminine includes-article indefinite singular)
aname baiten (dative includes-article indefinite neuter singular)
baiten (dative indefinite plural)
khòonen baiten (dative includes-article indefinite plural)
baite (nominative plural without-article)
baite (accusative plural without-article)
baiten (dative plural without-article)
èar ist baitor (comparative masculine predicative singular)
zi ist baitor (comparative feminine predicative singular)
is ist baitor (comparative neuter predicative singular)
ze zèint baitor (comparative plural predicative)
dar baitore (comparative definite includes-article masculine nominative singular)
de baitora (comparative definite feminine includes-article nominative singular)
's baitore (comparative definite includes-article neuter nominative singular)
de baitorn (comparative definite includes-article nominative plural)
in baitorn (accusative comparative definite includes-article masculine singular)
de baitora (accusative comparative definite feminine includes-article singular)
's baitore (accusative comparative definite includes-article neuter singular)
de baitorn (accusative comparative definite includes-article plural)
me baitorn (comparative dative definite includes-article masculine singular)
dar baitorn (comparative dative definite feminine includes-article singular)
me baitorn (comparative dative definite includes-article neuter singular)
in baitorn (comparative dative definite includes-article plural)
an baitorar (comparative includes-article indefinite masculine nominative singular)
an baitora (comparative feminine includes-article indefinite nominative singular)
an baitors (comparative includes-article indefinite neuter nominative singular)
baitorn (comparative indefinite nominative plural)
khòone baitorn (comparative includes-article indefinite nominative plural)
an baitorn (accusative comparative includes-article indefinite masculine singular)
an baitora (accusative comparative feminine includes-article indefinite singular)
an baitors (accusative comparative includes-article indefinite neuter singular)
baitorn (accusative comparative indefinite plural)
khòone baitorn (accusative comparative includes-article indefinite plural)
aname baitorn (comparative dative includes-article indefinite masculine singular)
anara baitorn (comparative dative feminine includes-article indefinite singular)
aname baitorn (comparative dative includes-article indefinite neuter singular)
baitorn (comparative dative indefinite plural)
khòonen baitorn (comparative dative includes-article indefinite plural)
baitore (comparative nominative plural without-article)
baitore (accusative comparative plural without-article)
baitorn (comparative dative plural without-article)
èar ist dar baitorste (masculine predicative singular superlative)
zi ist dar baitorsta (feminine predicative singular superlative)
is ist dar baitorste (neuter predicative singular superlative)
ze zèint dar baitorste (plural predicative superlative)
dar baitorste (definite includes-article masculine nominative singular superlative)
de baitorsta (definite feminine includes-article nominative singular superlative)
's baitorste (definite includes-article neuter nominative singular superlative)
de baitorsten (definite includes-article nominative plural superlative)
in baitorsten (accusative definite includes-article masculine singular superlative)
de baitorsta (accusative definite feminine includes-article singular superlative)
's baitorste (accusative definite includes-article neuter singular superlative)
de baitorsten (accusative definite includes-article plural superlative)
me baitorsten (dative definite includes-article masculine singular superlative)
dar baitorsten (dative definite feminine includes-article singular superlative)
me baitorsten (dative definite includes-article neuter singular superlative)
in baitorsten (dative definite includes-article plural superlative)
an baitorstar (includes-article indefinite masculine nominative singular superlative)
an baitorsta (feminine includes-article indefinite nominative singular superlative)
an baitorstes (includes-article indefinite neuter nominative singular superlative)
baitorsten (indefinite nominative plural superlative)
khòone baitorsten (includes-article indefinite nominative plural superlative)
an baitorsten (accusative includes-article indefinite masculine singular superlative)
an baitorsta (accusative feminine includes-article indefinite singular superlative)
an baitorstes (accusative includes-article indefinite neuter singular superlative)
baitorsten (accusative indefinite plural superlative)
khòone baitorsten (accusative includes-article indefinite plural superlative)
aname baitorsten (dative includes-article indefinite masculine singular superlative)
anara baitorsten (dative feminine includes-article indefinite singular superlative)
aname baitorsten (dative includes-article indefinite neuter singular superlative)
baitorsten (dative indefinite plural superlative)
khòonen baitorsten (dative includes-article indefinite plural superlative)
baitorste (nominative plural superlative without-article)
baitorste (accusative plural superlative without-article)
baitorsten (dative plural superlative without-article)

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Positive forms of <i class="Latn mention" lang="cim">bait</i>

Comparative forms of <i class="Latn mention" lang="cim">bait</i>

Superlative forms of <i class="Latn mention" lang="cim">bait</i>

From Middle High German wīt, from Old High German wīt, from Proto-Germanic *wīdaz (“wide, broad”). Cognate with German weit, Dutch wijd, English wide, Icelandic víður.


bait

attach bait to a hook

catch a few using bait

Any substance, especially food, used in catching fish, or other animals, by alluring them to a hook, snare, trap, or net.

Food containing poison or a harmful additive to kill animals that are pests.

One of the “girls” used in this way, Pamella Bordes, later spoke of being “part of an enormous group … used as sexual bait.”

2017 June 7, Adam Lusher, “Adnan Khashoggi: the 'whoremonger' whose arms deals funded a playboy life of decadence and 'pleasure wives'”, in The Independent, London:

Anything which allures; something used to lure or entice someone or something into doing something

queerbait

sequel bait

Netflix bait

(as the head of a compound) Something that lures or entices a specified group

A portion of food or drink, as a refreshment taken on a journey; also, a stop for rest and refreshment.

(Geordie, Durham) A packed lunch - the bite to eat a worker took with them to eat

(East Anglia) A small meal taken mid-morning while farming.

(Northern England) A miner's packed meal.

A short stop, but no refreshment. Such baits are frequently given by the natives of the principality to their keffels, or horses, particularly after climbing a hill.

1824, Thomas Fielding, Select Proverbs of All Nations, page 132:

The tediousness of a two hours' bait at Petty-France, in which there was nothing to be done but to eat without being hungry, and loiter about without any thing to see, next followed […]

1803 (date written), [Jane Austen], chapter XX, in Northanger Abbey; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Murray, […], 20 December 1817 (indicated as 1818), →OCLC, page page 70:

Please stop posting bait, or I will have to mute you.

(Internet slang) A post intended to elicit a, usually strong or negative, reaction from others.

en-noun

bait (countable and uncountable, plural baits)

svačina

portion of food or drink taken on a journey

From Middle English bayte, bait, beite, from Old Norse beita (“food, bait”), from Proto-Germanic *baitō (“that which is bitten, bait”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- (“to cleave, split, separate”). Cognate with German Beize (“mordant, corrosive fluid; marinade; hunting”), Old English bāt (“that which can be bitten, food, bait”). Related to bite.


bait

(transitive) To attract with bait; to entice.

a crooked pin […] baited with a vile earthworm

1819 June 23 – 1820 September 13, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], “(please specify the title)”, in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., New York, N.Y.: […] C[ornelius] S. Van Winkle, […], →OCLC:

(transitive) To affix bait to a trap or a fishing hook or fishing line.

(transitive) To lay baits in an environment to control pest species.

(transitive) To target a pest species by laying baits.

en-verb

bait (third-person singular simple present baits, present participle baiting, simple past and past participle baited)

baits (present singular third-person)
baiting (participle present)
baited (participle past)
baited (past)


bait

to bait a bear with dogs

to bait a bull

(transitive) To set dogs on (an animal etc.) to bite or worry; to attack with dogs, especially for sport.

I remember once before, a mad woman, from about Alnwick, by name baited me with letters and plans — first for charity for herself or some protégé — I gave my guinea— then she wanted to have half the profits of a novel which I was to publish under my name and auspices.

1826 February 11 (date written), Walter Scott, “[Entry dated 11 February 1826]”, in David Douglas, editor, The Journal of Sir Walter Scott […], volume I, Edinburgh: David Douglas, published 1890, →OCLC:

(transitive) To intentionally annoy, torment, or threaten by constant rebukes or threats; to harass.

And than they com into a lowe medow that was full of swete floures, and there thes noble knyghtes bayted her horses.

1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “Capitulum ix”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book V, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, →OCLC:

The Sunne that measures heauen all day long, / At night doth baite his steedes the Ocean waues emong.

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 12:

Before I could move in it, however, I had to wait until we stopped to bait the flagging horses, which we did about noon at the head of the valley.

1894, Stanley J. Weyman, chapter VI, in Under the Red Robe:

(transitive, archaic) To feed and water (a horse or other animal), especially during a journey.

King Cyrus, that he might more speedily receave news from al parts of his Empire (which was of exceeding great length), would needs have it tried how far a horse could in a day goe outright without baiting, at which distance he caused stations to be set up, and men to have fresh horses ready for al such as came to him.

1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 22, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:

[H]orses' playful neigh, / From rustic's whips, and plough, and waggon, free, / Baiting in careless freedom o'er the leas, / Or turn'd to knap each other at their ease.

1821, John Clare, “[Poems.] Sunday Walks.”, in The Village Minstrel, and Other Poems, volume II, London: […] [T. Miller] for Taylor and Hessey, […]; and E[dward] Drury, […], →OCLC, pages 105–106:

(intransitive) Of a horse or other animal: to take food, especially during a journey.

For evil news rides post, while good news baits.

1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 89, line 539:

My Lord’s coach convey’d me to Bury, and thence baiting at Newmarket, stepping in at Audley End to see that house againe, I slept at Bishops Strotford, and the next day home.

1677 September 23 (Gregorian calendar), John Evelyn, “[Diary entry for 13 September 1677]”, in William Bray, editor, Memoirs, Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, […], 2nd edition, volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […]; and sold by John and Arthur Arch, […], published 1819, →OCLC, part I, page 433:

When he [a servant's master] baits at noon, enter the inn gate before him, and call the ostler to hold your master's horse while he alights.

1731 (date written, published 1745), Jonathan Swift, “[Directions to Servants.] The Duty of Servants at Inns.”, in Thomas Sheridan, John Nichols, editors, The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, […], new edition, volume XVI, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1801, →OCLC, page 174:

At Break of Day we arose, and after a short Repast march’d on till Noon, when we baited among some shady Trees near a Pond of Water […]

1743, Robert Drury, The Pleasant, and Surprizing Adventures of Mr. Robert Drury, during his Fifteen Years Captivity on the Island of Madagascar, London, page 62:

(intransitive) (of a person) To stop to take a portion of food and drink for refreshment during a journey.

From Middle English bayten, baiten, beiten, from Old Norse beita (“to bait, cause to bite, feed, hunt”), from Proto-Germanic *baitijaną (“to cause to bite, bridle”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- (“to cleave, split, separate”). Cognate with Icelandic beita (“to bait”), Swedish beta (“to bait, pasture, graze”), German beizen (“to cause to bite, bait”), Old English bǣtan (“to bait, hunt, bridle, bit”).


bait

Kites that baite and beate.

c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:

(obsolete, intransitive) To flap the wings; to flutter as if to fly; or to hover, as a hawk when she stoops to her prey.

French battre de l'aile or des ailes, to flap or flutter.


bait

I've been at home all day / Cloning £50 notes, this is sick / But it's a bit bait / Cause all the serial numbers are the same / So I can't spend them in the same place

2008, “Power”, in Famous?, performed by Jamie "Jme" Adenuga and Tim Westwood:

My face is bait, I can't hide it

2017, “Bait Face”, in Godfather, performed by Richard "Wiley" Cowie and Ryan "Scratchy" Williams:

en-adj

bait (comparative baiter, superlative baitest)

baiter (comparative)
baitest (superlative)

unk

Etymology unknown


bait

home (house or structure in which someone lives)

(literature) couplet (a pair of lines in poetry)

(literature) stanza (a unit of a poem, often in the form of a paragraph)

id-noun

bait (plural bait-bait, first-person possessive baitku, second-person possessive baitmu, third-person possessive baitnya)

bait-bait (plural)
baitku (first-person possessive)
baitmu (possessive second-person)
baitnya (possessive third-person)

From Malay bait, from Arabic بَيْت (bayt), from Proto-Semitic *bayt-.


bait

ms-noun

bait (Jawi spelling بيت, plural bait-bait, informal 1st possessive baitku, 2nd possessive baitmu, 3rd possessive baitnya)

بيت (Jawi)
bait-bait (plural)
baitku (first-person informal possessive)
baitmu (possessive second-person)
baitnya (possessive third-person)

→ Indonesian: bait

From Arabic بَيْت (bayt), from Proto-Semitic *bayt-.


bait

bait (Jawi spelling باٴيت, plural bait-bait, informal 1st possessive baitku, 2nd possessive baitmu, 3rd possessive baitnya)

باٴيت (Jawi)
bait-bait (plural)
baitku (first-person informal possessive)
baitmu (possessive second-person)
baitnya (possessive third-person)


bait

(Internet slang) bait (post intended to elicit a reaction from others)


bait

bait (nominative singular)
baitō (nominative plural)
baitōs (nominative plural)
bait (accusative singular)
baitā (accusative plural)
baitas (genitive singular)
baitō (genitive plural)
baitē (dative singular)
baitum (dative plural)
baitu (instrumental singular)
baitum (instrumental plural)

desctree

Old English: bāt
Middle English: bot, bate, bat, bote, boot, boet, boyt, bootte, boote
English: boat
Belizean Creole: boat
→ Esperanto: boato
→ Dhivehi: ބޯޓު (bōṭu)
→ Fijian: boto
→ Hijazi Arabic: بوت (bōt)
→ Japanese: ボート (bōto)
→ Malay: bot
→ Pitcairn-Norfolk: boet (Norfuk)
→ Sinhalese: බෝට්ටුව (bōṭṭuwa)
→ Swahili: boti
→ Scots: boat, bote (compare native bait, bate)
→ Tahitian: poti
Tok Pisin: bot
Scots: bate, bait
→ Middle Dutch: boot
Dutch: boot
Afrikaans: boot
→ Middle Low German: bôt, bott
Low German: Boot
Plautdietsch: Boot
→ German: Boot
→ North Frisian: böötj
→ Saterland Frisian: Boot
→ West Frisian: boat
→ Catalan: bot
→ Galician: bote
→ Old French: bot
→ Portuguese: bote
→ Spanish: bote
→ Cebuano: bote
→ Old Norse: bátr (see there for further descendants)
→ Old French: batel (see there for further descendants)
→ Middle Irish: bát
Irish: bád
Scottish Gaelic: bàta
Manx: baatey
→ Latin: battus
→ Welsh: bad

Old Dutch: *bēt

⇒ Old Dutch: *beitil (diminutive)

Middle Dutch: beitel


bait

baiți (plural)
bait (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
baitul (accusative definite nominative singular)
baiți (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
baiții (accusative definite nominative plural)
bait (indefinite singular)
baitului (definite singular)
baiți (indefinite plural)
baiților (definite plural)
baitule (singular vocative)
baiților (plural vocative)


bait

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bait. Compare Bikol Central buot, Cebuano buot, Malay baik, and Maori pai.


bait

(literary) second-person singular imperfect subjunctive of bod