Bache

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See also: bache, bâche, bâché, and Bäche

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Etymology

Proper noun

Bache

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

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German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbaxə/,
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  • Rhymes: -aχə

Etymology 1

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

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.
Declension
Declension of Bache
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative eine die Bache die Bachen
genitive einer der Bache der Bachen
dative einer der Bache den Bachen
accusative eine die Bache die Bachen
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Etymology 2

See the main lemma.

Noun

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

  1. Alternative form of Bachen (chiefly dialectal term for “bacon”)
Declension
Declension of Bache
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative ein der Bache die Bachen
genitive eines des Bachens, Bachen der Bachen
dative einem dem Bachen den Bachen
accusative einen den Bachen die Bachen

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

Bache

  1. (archaic) dative singular of Bach

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