bait
adjective
- foolish, mistaken (used as a general negative)
verb
- to cause trouble
noun
- object intended to attract animals
verb
- attach an attractive lure to a tool, for example in fishing
- manipulate somebody
- tease, rag on
- lure, entice, entrap with bait
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /beɪt/
adj
Etymology: Etymology unknown.
- Obvious; blatant.
“I've been at home all day / Cloning £50 notes, this is sick / But it's a bit bait / Cause all the serial numbers are the same / So I can't spend them in the same place”
- Well-known; famous; renowned.
“My face is bait, I can't hide it”
noun
Etymology: From Middle English bayte, bait, beite, from Old Norse beita (“food, bait”), from Proto-Germanic *baitō (“that which is bitten, bait”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- (“to cleave, split, separate”). Cognate with German Beize (“mordant, corrosive fluid; marinade”), Old English bāt (“that which can be bitten, food, bait”). Related to bite.
- Any substance, especially food, used in catching fish, or other animals, by alluring them to a hook, snare, trap, or net.
“attach bait to a hook”
“catch a few using bait”
- Food containing poison or a harmful additive to kill animals that are pests.
- Anything which allures; something or someone used to lure or entice someone or something into doing something.
“One of the “girls” used in this way, Pamella Bordes, later spoke of being “part of an enormous group … used as sexual bait.””
- Anything which allures; something or someone used to lure or entice someone or something into doing something.
“queerbait”
“sequel bait”
- Anything which allures; something or someone used to lure or entice someone or something into doing something.
“somno bait”
“snuff bait”
- A portion of food or drink, as a refreshment taken on a journey; also, a stop for rest and refreshment.
“A short stop, but no refreshment. Such baits are frequently given by the natives of the principality to their keffels, or horses, particularly after climbing a hill.”
“The tediousness of a two hours' bait at Petty-France, in which there was nothing to be done but to eat without being hungry, and loiter about without any thing to see, next followed […]”
- A portion of food or drink, as a refreshment taken on a journey; also, a stop for rest and refreshment.
- A portion of food or drink, as a refreshment taken on a journey; also, a stop for rest and refreshment.
- A portion of food or drink, as a refreshment taken on a journey; also, a stop for rest and refreshment.
- A portion of food or drink, as a refreshment taken on a journey; also, a stop for rest and refreshment.
- A post intended to elicit a, usually strong or negative, reaction from others.
“Please stop posting bait, or I will have to mute you.”
verb
Etymology: French battre de l'aile or des ailes, to flap or flutter.
- To flap the wings; to flutter as if to fly; or to hover, as a hawk when she stoops to her prey.
“Kites that baite and beate.”