Definition of bait

"bait" in the noun sense

1. bait, come-on, hook, lure, sweetener

anything that serves as an enticement

2. bait, decoy, lure

something used to lure fish or other animals into danger so they can be trapped or killed

"bait" in the verb sense

1. tease, razz, rag, cod, tantalize, tantalise, bait, taunt, twit, rally, ride

harass with persistent criticism or carping

"The children teased the new teacher"

"Don't ride me so hard over my failure"

"His fellow workers razzed him when he wore a jacket and tie"

2. bait

lure, entice, or entrap with bait

3. bait

attack with dogs or set dogs upon

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Quotations for bait

Darth Baiter.

Baiters gonna bait.

Fishes follow the bait. [ Proverb ]

The bait hides the hook. [ Proverb ]

The fish adores the bait. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Hope is a bait that covers any hook. [ Ben Jonson ]

Money is the best bait to fish for man with. [ Proverb ]

Beauty without grace is a hook without a bait. [ Ninon de Lenclos ]

Better shun the bait than struggle in the snare. [ Dryden ]

The escaped mouse ever feels the taste of the bait. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

That fish will soon be caught that nibbles at every bait. [ Proverb ]

Beauty, devoid of grace, is a mere hook without the bait. [ Talleyrand ]

But now so wise and wary was the knight
By trial of his former harms and cares,
That he descry'd and shunned still his slight;
The fish, that once was caught, new bait will hardly bite. [ Spenser ]

It is a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait. [ Proverb ]

A petitioner at court that spares his purse, angles without a bait. [ Proverb ]

Angling is a line with a bait at the one end and a fool at the other. [ Franklin ]

For beauty is the bait which with delight doth man allure, for to enlarge his kind. [ Spenser ]

Nothing under heaven so strongly does allure the sense of man, and all his mind possess, as beauty's love bait. [ Spenser ]

The pleasantest angling is to see the fish cut with her golden oars the silver stream, and greedily devour the treacherous bait. [ William Shakespeare ]

When an eagle soareth nearest to the sun he is hovering for his prey, and when a woman is most lip-holy she is most bait on mischief. [ Dempster ]

Her head was bare, but for her native ornament of hair, which in a simple knot was tied above - sweet negligence, unheeded bait of love! [ Dryden ]

Worldly wealth is the devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches, recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase. [ Burton ]

Gold is called the bait of sin, the snare of souls, and the hook of death; which being aptly applied may be compared to a fire, whereof a little is good to warm one, but too much will burn him altogether. [ Sir R. Filmer ]

Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase; as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun. [ Burton ]

bait in Scrabble®

The word bait is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 6

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters bait:

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bait in Words With Friends™

The word bait is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 7

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters bait:

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Words within the letters of bait

2 letter words in bait (5 words)

3 letter words in bait (3 words)

4 letter words in bait (1 word)

bait + 1 blank (8 words)

Word Growth involving bait

Shorter words in bait

ai

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Longer words containing bait

baited bearbaited

baited groundbaited

baited rebaited

baited unbaited

baiter baiters bearbaiters

baiter bearbaiter bearbaiters

baitfish baitfishes

baiting bearbaiting bearbaitings

baiting bullbaiting bullbaitings

baiting groundbaiting

baiting rebaiting

baiting unbaiting

baits bearbaits

baits groundbaits

baits rebaits

baits unbaits

bearbait bearbaited

bearbait bearbaiter bearbaiters

bearbait bearbaiting bearbaitings

bearbait bearbaits

groundbait groundbaited

groundbait groundbaiting

groundbait groundbaits

rebait rebaited

rebait rebaiting

rebait rebaits

unbait unbaitable

unbait unbaited

unbait unbaiting

unbait unbaits