Bache

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See also: bache, bâche, bâché, and Bäche

English

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Etymology

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Proper noun

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Bache

  1. A surname.
  2. A suburb of Chester, Cheshire West and Chester borough, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ4068).

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Anagrams

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German

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈbaxə/, [ˈba.χə]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -aχə

Etymology 1

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From Late Middle High German bache f (fattened sow, female porker), by gender change from the word in etymology 2 below; see Bachen. The sense developed from “bacon” via “slaughtered pig” to “porker”. The modern use is from hunters’ jargon.

Noun

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Bache f (genitive Bache, plural Bachen, masculine Keiler or Bacher or Wildeber)

  1. A wild sow, female wild boar
    Synonym: Wildsau
    • 2017, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Mitsch, “Tiere und Strafrecht”, in Juristische Ausbildung, number 12, →DOI, page 1397:
      Auf nächtlicher Fahrt durch den Berliner Grunewald galoppiert dem Pkw-Fahrer F plötzlich eine Wildsau vor die Stoßstange. F kann den Zusammenstoß nicht vermeiden. Das Auto ist im Frontbereich zerbeult, die Bache ist tot.
      On a nightly ride through the Grunewald in Berlin suddenly a wild sow galopps right up to bumper of the car driver F. F cannot prevent the crash. The car is battered in the front-end, the sow is dead.
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Etymology 2

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See the main lemma.

Noun

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Bache m (weak, genitive Bachens or Bachen, plural Bachen)

  1. Alternative form of Bachen (chiefly dialectal term for “bacon”)
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Etymology 3

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

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Bache

  1. (archaic) dative singular of Bach

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