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baj

“baj” is a Swedish word. Its 6 meanings in English:

interjection

  1. chastening of children when they dirtied themselves, or exhibited bad behavior
  2. warning for children to watch out for something filthy, uncomfortable, or shameful
  3. more generally showing dislike or disgust of indiscretion, vulgarity, or shameful behaviour

noun

  1. filth, dirt, feces
  2. a bay connected to the sea which entrance is less broad than its middle, goes deeper into land than a bukt (“bay”) which tend to be more evenly broad
  3. bajsalt, type of unrefined salt from western Europe

Etymology

From the West Bothnia and East Gothland dialectal word baj (“filth”). According to Rietz, possibly related to Middle High German baht.

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