See bah in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"Rhymes:English/ɑː/1 syllable"
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"form": "bahs",
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"plural"
]
}
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"extra": "the cry of a sheep or goat",
"word": "baa"
}
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"ref": "1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:",
"text": "`There, cut his throat quick. Where is the saucer?' `The Goat! the Goat! the Goat! Give me the blood of my black goat! I must have it, don't you see I must have it? Oh! oh! oh! give me the blood of the goat.' At this moment a terrified bah! announced that the poor goat had been sacrificed, and the next minute a woman ran up with a saucer full of blood.",
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}
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"Alternative spelling of baa (the cry of a sheep or goat)."
],
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"baa",
"baa#English"
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"ipa": "/bɑː/",
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]
},
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"rhymes": "-ɑː"
},
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},
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}
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"word": "baa"
}
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"word": "sis boom bah"
},
{
"sense": "Singlish particles",
"word": "ah"
},
{
"sense": "Singlish particles",
"word": "hor"
},
{
"sense": "Singlish particles",
"word": "lah"
},
{
"sense": "Singlish particles",
"word": "leh"
},
{
"sense": "Singlish particles",
"word": "liao"
},
{
"sense": "Singlish particles",
"word": "lor"
},
{
"sense": "Singlish particles",
"word": "mah"
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{
"sense": "Singlish particles",
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{
"sense": "Singlish particles",
"word": "one"
},
{
"sense": "Singlish particles",
"word": "sia"
},
{
"sense": "Singlish particles",
"word": "what"
}
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"word": "ba"
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"Singlish"
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"ba",
"ba#Etymology 5"
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