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English
Etymology
Perhaps Old French baffe (“a faggot”).
Pronunciation
Noun
bavin (countable and uncountable, plural bavins)
- (Southern England, archaic, countable) A bundle of wood or twigs, which may be used in broom-making.
1578, John Lyly, Euphues:[…] that hot love is soon cold: that the bavin, though it burn bright, is but a blaze: that scalding water, it if stand awhile, turneth almost to ice […]
- (Southern England, archaic, countable) A faggot bound with only one band.
- (UK, dialect, uncountable) Impure limestone.
1839, Roderick Murchison, The Silurian System, i. xxxvi. 484:The concretions […] are called 'bavin,' the shale associated with them being termed 'rotch.'
Verb
bavin (third-person singular simple present bavins, present participle bavining, simple past and past participle bavined)
- (Southern England, archaic) To bundle and bind wood into bavins.
Adjective
bavin (not comparable)
- Made of firewood or kindling.
a. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1, act 3, scene 2, lines 60–63:The skipping King, he ambled up and down, / With shallow jesters, and rash bavin wits, / Soon kindled and soon burnt, carded his state, / Mingled his royalty with capering fools,
Norman
Etymology
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Noun
bavin m (uncountable)
- (Guernsey) nonsense, rubbish