old baas, noun phrase

/ˈəʊld bɑːs/
Forms:
Also with small initials.
Origin:
AfrikaansShow more Partial translation of Afrikaans oubaas, see oubaas.
obs.
1. oubaas sense 3.
1882 C. Du Val With Show through Sn Afr. I. 63‘Lots of fruit in the orchard, and the old Baas says you can help yourselves,’ says Rogers the guard.
1942 S. Cloete Hill of Doves 37Drive fast, indeed! They should have seen old Tanta Anna de Jong drive. You ask the Old Baas how she drove. Like Jehu.
1953 D. Jacobson Long Way from London 109Johannes said that it did not matter so much if Paulus knew no English, because the old baas, the ou baas, knew no English either.
1958 A. Jackson Trader on Veld 44After supper the old Baas would always read a chapter of the Bible.
1963 S. Cloete Rags of Glory 248It is in my heart that the old Baas left mevrou some gold.
1976 S. Cloete Chetoko 112When the old Baas and I were young, the world was beautiful.
2. oubaas sense 1.
1899 B. Mitford Weird of Deadly Hollow 242Old Baas Rendlesams will get the shower if there is one.
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