BAe

name

/beɪ/

Etymology

Syncopic form of babe or baby. Notably, it is sometimes incorrectly linked to the unrelated Danish word bæ (“poop”). Sometimes claimed to derive from "before anyone else", a possible backronym.

borrowed from BAE

Definitions

Initialism of British Aerospace.
Alternative letter-case form of BAe (“British Aerospace”).
The ship prefix for ships of the navy of Ecuador.
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  Darling (term of endearment).
  - And if you actually want to see your bae – you know, like in person – You better set aside some of your refund check to pay for the $26 train ticket to a school that lingers outside of the tri-state area.
  - Your newsfeed gets clogged with statuses like “Happy Valentine’s Day to my bae! I’ve loved you so much ever since we first met three months, eight days, 11 hours and 27 minutes ago!”
  - A fresh pic of you and your bae on vacay together? Who wouldn't “like” that?!?
2. Asian pear.
3. 6
  To make the sound of a wild animal, to bay.
  - He's a lamb indeed, that baes like a bear.
  - ...the ewe that will not hear her lamb when it baes will never answer a calf when he bleats.
4. A surname from Korean.

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