baas
Cries from ewes
Baas is an Afrikaans word meaning boss or master, used historically in South Africa as a form of address by Black workers to white employers or overseers.
The term carries strong associations with apartheid-era racial hierarchy and is now largely avoided except in historical contexts: Yes, baas.
In Dutch, from which Afrikaans descends, baas simply means boss without the racial connotations.
master
Authority or controller
- overseerOne who monitors work
- foremanWorker who directs others
- supervisorOne who directs workers
employer · patriarch · landowner · colonial · Afrikaans · South African · dominance · hierarchy · command · control
sheep
Woolly farm animal
ram · kid · nanny · ovine · caprine · farmyard · barnyard · meadow · pasture · grazing