FromGermanBauer.Doublet ofBoer,boor, andbower.
bauer (pluralbauers)
- AGermanfarmer orpeasant.
1820,Thomas Hodgskin,Travels in the North of Germany, Describing the Present State of the Social and Political Institutions, the Agriculture, Manufactures, Commerce, Education, Arts and Manners in That Country, Particularly in the Kingdom of Hannover, volume II, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co. […]; and Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […] London, page93:The large farmers are gentlemen of education, but thebauers are so occupied by the labour of routine, that they are excluded from all theoretical knowledge, and can make no other improvements than those which they may see practised by the larger farmers.
1841,The Smugglers of the Swedish Coast: or, The Rose of Thistle Island, pages23–24:Thebauers were in the public houses in this village, singing and drinking in a manner that would have horrified Sir Andrew Agnew, and made us think that, for a serious and sentimental nation, the Germans had the least show of being a religious one imaginable.
1879,S[abine] Baring-Gould,Germany, Present and Past, volume I, London:C[harles] Kegan Paul & Co., […], page129:He is in uniform, and for three years flutters on the parade, in the beer-gardens, in the gallery at the theatre, and then he chrysalises into the old paternalbauer suit and the patriarchal ideas.
1883,Archibald Forbes, “Fire-Discipline”, inT[homas] H[ay] S[weet] Escott, editor,The Fortnightly Review, volume XXXIV, London:Chapman and Hall, Limited, […], page834:British yokels, British jail-birds, German handicraftsmen, Germanbauers, French peasants, and French artisans, were all pretty much alike made creditable “cannon-fodder.”
2022, Jessica Stroja,Displaced Persons, Resettlement and the Legacies of War: From War Zones to New Homes,Routledge,→ISBN:Krystyna [Gruba] recalled that / [r]ight after the[sic] World War II ended, none of us – forced labourers with the Germanbauers (farmers) – knew what to do next: whether to go back to Poland or stay where we were.
Borrowed fromGermanBauer.Doublet ofgbur(“landed peasant”).
bauer m pers (related adjectivebauerski)
- (agriculture, sometimes colloquial)richGermanfarmer
- Synonym:baor
- bauer inWielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- bauer in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Borrowed fromGermanBauer.
bauer m pers (female equivalentbauerka,related adjectivebauerski)
- farmer
- Synonyms:gospodŏrz,gazda,siodłŏk,bamber
- peasant
- Synonym:siodłŏk
