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Tagalog
Etymology
Possibly from blend of babayi (“female”) + bansot (“stunted”).
Pronunciation
Noun
babaysót or babaysot (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜊᜌ᜔ᜐᜓᜆ᜔) (dialectal, Cavite, Batangas, mildly derogatory)
- female; girl
- Synonym: babae
- Coordinate term: lalaksot
Sinabi ng mga matatanda na ayaw nilang gab-i na'y naghihikap pa ang mga babaysot.- The old people said they did not like that the girls were still strolling when already nighttime.
- (obsolete) stupid promiscuous woman; drab
Usage notes
- Used by older people to call females younger than them but sometimes applied to any female in general regardless of age.
See also
Further reading
- “babaysot”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- Panganiban, José Villa (1973) Diksyunaryo-Tesauro Pilipino-Ingles (overall work in Tagalog and English), Quezon City: Manlapaz Publishing Co., page 88
- Serrano-Laktaw, Pedro (1914) Diccionario tagálog-hispano, Ateneo de Manila, page 66.
- Baroja, Felipe Mayor (2012) Diksyunaryong Batangueño (in Tagalog), Batangas, Philippines: Veritas Printing Press, Inc., page 32
- Noceda, Fr. Juan José de, Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier