Re: usage of word: "BATE"


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Posted by Katharine Edgar on August 31, 2003 at 19:23:30 from 81.96.139.177 user Katharine.

In Reply to: Re: usage of word: posted by Peter Ceresole on August 31, 2003 at -1:09:03:

My brothers were using the word 'bate' at prep school in the early 1980s. This is the only time I have ever heard it used. Perhaps because of this it always seemed to me like a word used by boys rather than girls, so if it is the tomboyish Nancy that uses it then this seems entirely appropriate.


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