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baish verb to sit 20. etymology: possibly a development from Romany besh with the same meaning; attested by Galloway Tinkler-Gypsies note:

Grellmann (1787) collected the forms Bezhawna, Bezh with the same meaning from Continental gipsies. Smart & Crofton (1875) collected the form Besh ‘to sit’ from English Gypsies.