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
3. to draw out, prolong
4. to make off
5. to gut (a fish)
6. to draw (a fowl)
7. to castrate (an animal)

Conjugation

conjugation of bain as: see bain

Quotations

• 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect], volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 60:

  ə wuəl tū n fȧr ūd? wuələs; wȧn šē asm̥ ē.

  [An bhuail tú an fear úd? Bhuaileas; bhain sé asam é.]

  Did you hit that man? I did; he got it out of me [i.e. he provoked me].

• 1988, Mícheál Ó Siadhail, Lesson 20, in Learning Irish (overall work in English), Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 108:

  Bíonn Ruairí ag baint astu uilig.

  Ruairí is teasing them all.