bauer

plural bauers

1. A German farmer or peasant.

   British yokels, British jail-birds, German handicraftsmen, German bauers, French peasants, and French artisans, were all pretty much alike made creditable “cannon-fodder.”

   1883, Archibald Forbes, “Fire-Discipline”, in T[homas] H[ay] S[weet] Escott, editor, The Fortnightly Review, volume XXXIV, London: Chapman and Hall, Limited, […], page 834

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   The large farmers are gentlemen of education, but the bauers are so occupied by the labour of routine, that they are excluded from all theoretical knowledge, and can make no other improvements than those which they may see practised by the larger farmers.

   1820, Thomas Hodgskin, Travels in the North of Germany, Describing the Present State of the Social and Political Institutions, the Agriculture, Manufactures, Commerce, Education, Arts and Manners in That Country, Particularly in the Kingdom of Hannover, volume II, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co. […]; and Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […] London, page 93

   The bauers were in the public houses in this village, singing and drinking in a manner that would have horrified Sir Andrew Agnew, and made us think that, for a serious and sentimental nation, the Germans had the least show of being a religious one imaginable.

   1841, The Smugglers of the Swedish Coast: or, The Rose of Thistle Island, pages 23–24

   He is in uniform, and for three years flutters on the parade, in the beer-gardens, in the gallery at the theatre, and then he chrysalises into the old paternal bauer suit and the patriarchal ideas.

   1879, S[abine] Baring-Gould, Germany, Present and Past, volume I, London: C[harles] Kegan Paul & Co., […], page 129

   Krystyna [Gruba] recalled that / [r]ight after the^([sic]) World War II ended, none of us – forced labourers with the German bauers (farmers) – knew what to do next: whether to go back to Poland or stay where we were.

   2022, Jessica Stroja, Displaced Persons, Resettlement and the Legacies of War: From War Zones to New Homes, Routledge, →ISBN

plural bauers

1. Synonym of Ina Bauer

   Synonyms: Ina Bauer

1. A surname from German.

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   University of Massachusetts epidemiologist Ann Bauer reviewed existing research in a paper published last month in the journal Environmental Health with Dr. Andrea Baccarelli, the dean of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City and the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.

   2025 September 22, Lauren Gardner, “Co-author of study linking Tylenol to autism says pain reliever still an option”, in POLITICO, archived from the original on 31 Oct 2025