baste

See also: Baste and basté

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /beɪst/

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• Rhymes: -eɪst
• Homophone: based

Etymology 1

Late Middle English, from Old French bastir (“build, construct, sew up (a garment)”).

Verb

Basting material to a pattern before cutting it.

baste (third-person singular simple present bastes, present participle basting, simple past and past participle basted)

1. To sew with long or loose stitches, as for temporary use, or in preparation for gathering the fabric.
   • 1991 June 14, J.F. Pirro, “Custom Work”, in Chicago Reader‎^[1]:

     He bastes the coat together with thick white thread almost like string, using stitches big enough to be ripped out easily later.

Translations

sew with long or loose stitches

• Bulgarian: тропосвам (troposvam)
• Catalan: embastar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: harsia (fi)
• French: bâtir (fr), faufiler (fr)
• Galician: ganduxar
• German: heften (de)
• Ido: imbastar (io)
• Quechua: ch'uhtay
• Romanian: însăila (ro)
• Russian: смета́ть (ru) pf (smetátʹ), смётывать (ru) impf (smjótyvatʹ)
• Spanish: hilvanar (es), embastar (es)
• Swedish: tråckla (sv)
• Tagalog: lagwatan, lagwatin
• Yiddish: פֿאַסטריגעווען (fastrigeven)

Etymology 2

Middle English basten, of uncertain etymon, possibly from Old French basser (“moisten, soak”), from bacin (“basin”).

Verb

baste (third-person singular simple present bastes, present participle basting, simple past and past participle basted)

1. To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting.
2. (by extension) To coat over something.
   • 2001 April 20, Peter Margasak, “Almost Famous”, in Chicago Reader‎^[2]:

     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.

3. To mark (sheep, etc.) with tar.

Translations

sprinkle and drip

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Dutch: bedruipen (nl)
• Finnish: valella (fi)
• German: beizen (de), begießen (de)

Noun

baste (plural bastes)

1. A basting; a sprinkling of drippings etc. in cooking.
   • 1876, The Odd Fellow's Companion:

     "Just like a leg of mutton being roasted before a slow fire without any one to give it a baste," groaned the old man.

Etymology 3

Perhaps from the cookery sense of baste or from some Scandinavian etymon. Compare Old Norse beysta (“to beat, thresh”) (whence Danish børste (“to beat up”)). Compare also Swedish basa (“to beat with a rod, to flog”) and Swedish bösta (“to thump”). Might be related to French bâton (“stick”) (formerly baston); English baton comes from bâton; see also French bastonnade (“the act of beating with a stick”).

Verb

baste (third-person singular simple present bastes, present participle basting, simple past and past participle basted)

1. (archaic, slang) To beat with a stick; to cudgel.
   • July 1660, Samuel Pepys, Diaries

     One man was basted by the keeper for carrying some people over on his back through the waters.

Translations

(archaic, slang) beat with a stick

• Bulgarian: пердаша (bg) (perdaša)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: piestä kepillä

References

• [Francis] Grose [et al.] (1811) “Baste”, in Lexicon Balatronicum. A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence. […], London: […] C. Chappell, […], →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Bates, Beast, Sebat, abets, bates, beast, beats, besat, betas, esbat, tabes

Dutch

Pronunciation

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Verb

baste

1. inflection of bassen:
   1. singular past indicative
   2. (dated or formal) singular past subjunctive

Anagrams

• batse, besta

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish basto.

Pronunciation

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Noun

baste m (plural bastes)

1. ace of clubs

Noun

baste f (plural bastes)

1. basque (clothing)

Further reading

• “baste”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Galician

Verb

baste

1. inflection of bastar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative
2. inflection of bastir:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

baste

1. Alternative form of bast (“bast”)

Etymology 2

Noun

baste

1. Alternative form of bast (“illegitimacy”)

Northern Sami

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈpasːte/

Noun

baste

1. spoon

Inflection

Even e-stem, st-stt gradation
Nominative	baste
Genitive	bastte
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	baste	basttet
Accusative	bastte	basttiid
Genitive	bastte	basttiid
Illative	bastii	basttiide
Locative	basttes	basttiin
Comitative	basttiin	basttiiguin
Essive	basten
Possessive forms Singular Dual Plural 1st person basten basteme bastemet 2nd person bastet bastede bastedet 3rd person bastes basteska basteset

Derived terms

• deadjabaste

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎^[3], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Portuguese

Verb

baste

1. inflection of bastar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative
2. inflection of bastir:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaste/ [ˈbas.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -aste
• Syllabification: bas‧te

Verb

baste

1. inflection of bastar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative
2. inflection of bastir:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative