bach

A bachelor.

A small hut, especially for a man living alone.

Now specifically, a holiday home, typically a small, simple house of one or two rooms on the beach.

She stops the car by an ochre-coloured bach at the end of the beachline, by the shelter of a massive thicket of African thorn.

Even before he began his chores he sunbathed naked against the east wall of the bach for half an hour.

To live as a bachelor; (chiefly of a man) to live without women, and do one's own cooking, housekeeping etc.

I hurried home to the tent—I was batching with a carpenter.

Clipping of bachelorette.

When I ask people how spending money makes them feel, so many of them respond, "Guilty." ¶ They'll give an example of how a rough day at the office led to buying a pair of shoes online or how they got a little carried away at their friend's bach party in Vegas.

Bachelorette party captions for Instagram […] Babes, baches, bikinis, and boats.