Definition/Meaning of bait

• English - Noun: bait (countable and uncountable, plural baits) (countable, uncountable) Any substance , especially food , used in catching fish , or other animals, by alluring them to a hook , snare , trap , or net . attach bait to a hook catch a few using bait (countable, uncountable) Food containing poison or a harmful additive to kill animals that are pests. (countable, uncountable) Anything which allure s;…
• English - Verb: bait (third-person singular simple present baits, present participle baiting, simple past and past participle baited) (transitive) To attract with bait; to entice . (transitive) To affix bait to a trap or a fishing hook or fishing line . 1819 June 23 – 1820 September 13, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], “(please specify the title)”, in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.,…
• English - Adjective: bait (comparative baiter, superlative baitest) (Multicultural London English) Obvious ; blatant . 2008, “Power”, in Famous?, performed by Jamie "Jme" Adenuga and Tim Westwood: I've been at home all day / Cloning £50 notes, this is sick / But it's a bit bait / Cause all the serial numbers are the same / So I can't spend them in the same place (Multicultural London English) Well-known ; famous ;…
• English - Anagrams: abit , a bit
• English - Etymology: Etymology 1. From Middle English bayte , bait , beite , from Old Norse beita (“food, bait”), from Proto-Germanic *baitō (“that which is bitten, bait”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- (“to cleave, split, separate”). Cognate with German Beize (“mordant, corrosive fluid; marinade”), Old English bāt (“that which can be bitten, food, bait”). Related to bite . Etymology 2. From Middle English bayten…