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bain_as

bain as

Irish

Verb

bain as (present analytic baineann as, future analytic bainfidh as, verbal noun baint as, past participle bainte as)

  1. to take from, get from, to get out of
  2. to tease, egg on, pull someone's leg
    • 1988, Mícheál Ó Siadhail, Learning Irish, Yale University Press, ISBN 0-300-04224-8, p. 108:
      Bíonn Ruairí ag baint astu uilig.
      Ruairí is teasing them all.
  3. to draw out, prolong
  4. to make off
  5. (of fish) to gut
  6. (of fowl) to draw
  7. (of animal) to castrate

Conjugation