sosa December 22, 2014īut adjectival bae goes beyond literal significant others, and into the realm of fantasy significant others. He was supposed to be bae a long time ago but I got friendzoned so now we’re bffs but you know, that’s better than nothing so. #AshleyGotMail - Ashley Ford December 12, 2014
Oh, he wants Meg Ryan to be Bae so he don’t want to tell her he’s Rich Bookstore Man? This is white game. These days bae has gotten a lot of mileage out of its robust use as an adjective. My guess is that adjectival bae (or what I’ll call adjectival bae for now) at first pointed to the original boyfriend/girlfriend/significant other sense, as in the following examples:
However possibilities abound as bae moves into to other parts of speech. When bae appears as a noun, its meaning is relatively set: it’s a term of endearment. A much more likely etymological explanation is that bae is a shortening of baby or babe. an affectionate term used to address or refer to one’s girlfriend, boyfriend, etc.” Many have debated the etymology of bae, some insisting that it derives from the acronym “Before Anyone Else.” The earliest evidence of this connection on Twitter is from a July 19, 2011, tweet, making “Before Anyone Else” a backronym of bae, which first surfaced in rap music and on Urban Dictionary in the early-to-mid-2000s.
What does bae mean?ĭ defines the noun bae as: “ Slang. The popular social media platform has been used to mine language change for years and has inspired some recent linguistic scholarly research. While the noun form has been around for over 10 years, adjectival and verbal uses, along with other related forms, have more recently started popping up to describe the people and things we love, or at least like-like. Twitter, in particular, is rife with interesting new uses of the term. Over the last couple of years, the term bae has achieved widespread usage.
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