The word boss comes from the Dutch word baas which literally means master.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blog De Ganz | Archive | December] Reference

But what an uproar of bellows and "baas" takes place!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ranching, Sport and Travel] Reference

The word "boss" is derived from the Dutch baas, meaning.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Business Can Learn from Open Source] Reference

Farmers 'insistence on being addressed as "baas" or "missus" was not conciliatory.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Some told stories of being asked to address young white police officers as "baas" (Afrikaans for ` boss ').    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The pamphlet said "the baboon is in office" and the "baas" (former provincial commissioner Chris Serfontein) had left.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The rest of the song has Mafokate pleading, tongue in cheek with the white "baas" (overlord) not to call him "kaffir" while the.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

He tapped Strydom on the shoulder, saying: "Excuse me 'baas'.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Besides, master sounds too much like 'baas' for my liking. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

"baas," whose family lived about twelve miles from the farm of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Years' War] Reference

"Nie, baas; ek wiet nie," he said, shaking his head.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari Seven Tales of South-West Africa] Reference

Will he intervene or is Kriel still the real baas of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [KRIEL'S GOVERNMENT IN CHAOS!] Reference

Loud cheering baas rising to a crescendo, abruptly cut-off.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Jaws of Kronos, scene 4] Reference

So “baas”=terror makes quite reasonable sense by itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Science versus science or religion versus religion - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Their colour automatically secure their position as die baas.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Today] Reference

"They are 'ja-baas' unions, which have committed labour suicide.".    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

"Coffee, baas," said the Hottentot; and as I sipped it I remembered.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari Seven Tales of South-West Africa] Reference

"No, no," I said impatiently, "the old baas that came in the night?".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari Seven Tales of South-West Africa] Reference

In Marocco “Lá baas” means, “I am pretty well” (in health).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

"Kambala," said I, impatiently, to the other man; "has the ou baas gone?".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari Seven Tales of South-West Africa] Reference

The baas took a horse and went for a ride, answered one of the grooms nervously.    From Wordnik.com.  [When the Lion Feeds]

"Africanism" was not radical, but a cringing, "ja-baas" attitude to the struggle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pan Africanist Congress of Azania A viable alternative or a flat spare-tyre?*] Reference

Then did I take the skin from the dead baas, for I loved him for his pictures, and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Uncanny Tales] Reference

"Great fight, baas -- plenty much blood, plenty much blood," one of them described it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Impressions of a War Correspondent] Reference

They became our masters and made us respond to their commands with "Ja baas, Ja baas".    From Wordnik.com.  [SPEECH AT A FRELIMO MASS RALLY AT BAIRRO DE LIBERDADE, MAPUTO, FEBRUARY 14, 1982(1)] Reference

"Yes, baas," responded the dutiful black, bobbing up and down on his master's spare horse.    From Wordnik.com.  [With Steyn and De Wet] Reference

ICU of Comrade Kadalie, but there will be a camp of the starving workers vs. the big baas. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Class & Colour in South Africa 1850-1950 - Chapter 16] Reference

Some of them carried posters that urged "hands off our mayor", and "voetsek baas Tony Leon".    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Our policy is that the Europeans must stand their ground and must remain baas in South Africa.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rise of the South African Reich - Chapter 7] Reference

'Our policy is that the Europeans must stand their ground and must remain baas in South Africa.    From Wordnik.com.  [Non-Racialism in Action Acknowledging the past, Changing the present, Building the future] Reference

The Matola raiders included black traitors who were frequently heard saying, "Ja baas, Ja baas".    From Wordnik.com.  [SPEECH AT A FRELIMO MASS RALLY AT BAIRRO DE LIBERDADE, MAPUTO, FEBRUARY 14, 1982(1)] Reference

I will discuss also Historical Determinism ... approving chorus of baas ... yes, you love that one, don't you, you filthy little betrayers.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Jaws of Kronos, scene 4] Reference

But I ain't afraid, baas; you're not goin 'to die just yet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through Veld and Forest An African Story] Reference

"Olifants fighting, baas!" excitedly whispered Piet in my ear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through Veld and Forest An African Story] Reference

"It is no use, baas Willem," said the Kaffir, who had managed to get close beside his master.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Giraffe Hunters] Reference