babaysot

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• babayisot — obsolete

Etymology

Possibly from blend of babayi (“female”) +‎ bansot (“stunted”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /babajˈsot/ [bɐ.baɪ̯ˈsot], /baˈbajsot/ [bɐˈbaːɪ̯.sot]
• Rhymes: -ot, -ajsot
• Syllabification: ba‧bay‧sot

Noun

babaysót or babaysot (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜊᜌ᜔ᜐᜓᜆ᜔) (dialectal, Batangas, mildly derogatory)

1. female; girl

   Synonym: babae

   Coordinate term: lalaksot

   Sinabi ng mga matatanda na ayaw nilang gab-i na'y naghihikap pa ang mga babaysot.

   The old people said they did not like that the girls were still strolling when already nighttime.

2. (obsolete) stupid promiscuous woman; drab

Usage notes

• Used by older people to call females younger than them but sometimes applied to any female in general regardless of age.

Further reading

• “babaysot”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Panganiban, José Villa (1973) Diksyunaryo-Tesauro Pilipino-Ingles (overall work in Tagalog and English), Quezon City: Manlapaz Publishing Co., page 88
• Serrano-Laktaw, Pedro (1914) Diccionario tagálog-hispano, Ateneo de Manila, page 66.
• Baroja, Felipe Mayor (2012) Diksyunaryong Batangueño‎^[1] (in Tagalog), Batangas, Philippines: Veritas Printing Press, Inc., page 32
• Noceda, Fr. Juan José de, Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves‎^[2] (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier