bah

alternative archaic baugh

1. humoroussometimesExpressing contempt, disgust, or bad temper.

   “Bah!” cried the woman. “My husband will know!”

   1913 June–December, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Forging Bonds of Hate and ——?”, in The Return of Tarzan, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, […], published March 1915, →OCLC, page 22

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   "To the doctor's? Bah!" said the sorceress, and spat upon the floor.

   1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 301

   This process being entirely inadequate to express the nature of his emotions he ejaculated "Bah!" and so gave Cripps to understand that he was now removed from consideration as a human being.

   1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 141

   Templeton looked over the assembled servants speculatively, then shrugged. "Bah!" he said. "They're of no use to me. Come, Andrew, a word with you upstairs."

   1992, April Kihlstrom, Dangerous Masquerade

   Synonyms: pht, feh, meh, pooh, pshaw, poh, pish, ick

plural bahs · alternative baa

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of baa.

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   `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.

   1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC

alternative baa

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of baa.

   Synonyms: feh, pht, pish, poh, pooh, pshaw

1. ManglishSinglishalternativeAlternative spelling of ba.

1. USabbreviationinitialismgovernmentInitialism of Basic Allowance for Housing.

   One user mouthed along to lines from the 2005 Gulf war drama Jarhead about being “dumb enough” to sign a military contract. “All that for BAH,” she wrote in the caption, referring to the housing allowance given to service people.

   2026 April 4, Alaina Demopoulos, “#MilitaryTok reactions to Iran war stray from White House messaging: ‘Now I’m regretting everything’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

plural Bahs

1. A surname.