bacc

bacc (plural baccs)

1. Clipping of baccalaureate.
   • 2004, Malaika Stoll, Best 162 Medical Schools 2005 Edition‎^[1], page 50:

     Other post-bacc programs apply students' course work toward a master's degree. Tina decided not to enter an organized post-bacc program.

   • 2010, Kate Hewitt, The Greek Tycoon's Reluctant Bride‎^[2], page 152:

     I received my Bacc through an online correspondence course.

   • 2013, Carleen Eaton, Getting into Medical School For Dummies‎^[3]:

     This policy puts a bacc-MD student who realizes that she may prefer another medical school that isn't part of the combined program in a tough position: Stick with the school that's the sure thing, knowing that it's not ideal for her, or relinquish her reserved seat to take her chances as an applicant.

• post-bacc

• BCCA

bacc

1. alternative form of bak (“back”)

• bac

From Proto-Celtic *bakkos.

• IPA^(key): [bak]

bacc m (genitive baicc, nominative plural baicc)

1. hoe, mattock

• c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 52^a14
  • bacc [translating ligo]

    hoe, mattock

• c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 62^b10
  • bacc [translating ligo] · búana fínime

    a hoe: for harvesting vines

• Middle Irish: bac (“angle, corner; hindrance”)
  • Irish: bac
  • Manx: bac
  • Scottish Gaelic: bac

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 bacc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language