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Example sentences for: baal
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He makes reference to the eighteenth-century Jewish mystic Israel Baal Shem Tov and a paragraph later refers to him as “Tov”--a similar misunderstanding.
Australian pidgin acquired a second negative, borak , used as an alternative to baal or in a figurative sense for humbug, nonsense, or rubbish, from Wathawurung, whence came also an exclamation merrygig well done and coolie , a derogatory term for a person who partnered an Aboriginal woman.
I need hardly add, in the year 1894, that there is not a scrap of evidence in favour of any connexion of bale-fire with Baldr or with Bel or with Baal.
Borak was borrowed in the late 1830s and, perhaps because the Dharuk negative baal was already in use, did not last long in its primary sense.
But the largest group of words that characterise the early period are those that clearly formed part of a language used for the limited communication that took place between the two peoples: cobra head, mundowie foot, bogie to bathe or a bathing place, crammer to steal, nangry to sleep, patter to eat, budgeree good, cabon big, cooler angry, jerron afraid, narangy little, muny very, baal a negative, and cooee a call or to call.