bachelorise

English

Verb

bachelorise (third-person singular simple present bachelorises, present participle bachelorising, simple past and past participle bachelorised)

1. Alternative form of bachelorize
   • 1908, New Zealand. Parliament. House of Representatives, Parliamentary Debates, page 717:

     I do not merely refer to the young men, who can bachelorise occasionally and put up with a good deal of rough usage, but young women who previously have never known what it was to have anything but a most comfortable home

   • 1908, Empire Review - Volume 14, page 142:

     Confident that she can take care of herself in any circumstances, at any age after her twenty-first year, she will travel alone all over the world and bachelorise in risky neighbourhoods of London and Paris without the least intentional bravado, merely because she is unsuspicious, fearless and interested in everything.

   • 1959, Airini Elizabeth Woodhouse, Guthrie-Smith of Tutira, page 100:

     I was sorry to hear you have not been well but hope you will shortly be fit again or able to come and bachelorise with me, or better still bring your wife.

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