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"pos": "verb",
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{
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"To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting."
],
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"flour",
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],
[
"salt",
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],
[
"butter",
"butter"
],
[
"fat",
"fat"
]
]
},
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{
"ref": "2001 April 20, Peter Margasak, “Almost Famous”, in Chicago Reader",
"text": "Ice Cold Daydream\" bastes the bayou funk of the Meters in swirling psychedelia, while \"Sweet Thang,\" a swampy blues cowritten with his dad, sounds like something from Dr. John's \"Night Tripper\" phase.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"To coat over something."
],
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"(by extension) To coat over something."
],
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"broadly"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"To mark (sheep, etc.) with tar."
],
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[
"mark",
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],
[
"tar",
"tar"
]
]
}
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},
{
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},
{
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},
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"tags": [
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "sprinkle and drip",
"word": "bedruipen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "sprinkle and drip",
"word": "valella"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "sprinkle and drip",
"word": "beizen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "sprinkle and drip",
"word": "begießen"
}
],
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}
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"English terms derived from Old French",
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"English terms with homophones",
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"name": "inh"
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{
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"t": "moisten, soak"
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"name": "der"
},
{
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"2": "bacin",
"t": "basin"
},
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"name": "m"
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],
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"tags": [
"plural"
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"ref": "1876, The Odd Fellow's Companion",
"text": "\"Just like a leg of mutton being roasted before a slow fire without any one to give it a baste,\" groaned the old man.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"A basting; a sprinkling of drippings etc. in cooking."
]
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{
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"2": "beysta",
"t": "to beat, thresh"
},
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"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "da",
"2": "børste",
"t": "to beat up"
},
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"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "basa",
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},
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"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "bösta",
"t": "to thump"
},
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"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "bâton",
"t": "stick"
},
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"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "",
"3": "baston"
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{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "baton"
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"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "bastonnade",
"t": "the act of beating with a stick"
},
"expansion": "bastonnade (“the act of beating with a stick”)",
"name": "m"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Perhaps from the cookery sense of baste or from some Scandinavian etymon. Compare Old Norse beysta (“to beat, thresh”) (whence\nDanish børste (“to beat up”)). Compare also\nSwedish basa (“to beat with a rod, to flog”) and\nSwedish bösta (“to thump”).\nMight be related to French bâton (“stick”) (formerly baston); English baton comes from bâton; see also French bastonnade (“the act of beating with a stick”).",
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{
"form": "bastes",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "basting",
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"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "basted",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "basted",
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"past"
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}
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"categories": [
"English slang",
"English terms with archaic senses"
],
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{
"text": "July 1660, Samuel Pepys, Diaries\nOne man was basted by the keeper for carrying some people over on his back through the waters."
}
],
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"To beat with a stick; to cudgel."
],
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[
"beat",
"beat"
],
[
"cudgel",
"cudgel"
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],
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"(archaic, slang) To beat with a stick; to cudgel."
],
"tags": [
"archaic",
"slang"
]
}
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"ipa": "/beɪst/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-eɪst"
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{
"homophone": "based"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-baste.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/41/En-us-baste.ogg/En-us-baste.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/41/En-us-baste.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
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"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "perdaša",
"sense": "(archaic, slang) beat with a stick",
"word": "пердаша"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "(archaic, slang) beat with a stick",
"word": "piestä kepillä"
}
],
"word": "baste"
}
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