bawth

"And did she pour it into that -- that flat dishpan on the floor and tell you your 'bawth' was ready?"

Kent Knowles: Quahaug Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

My mother always said Hah-vahd and hoss and my dad - bawth and hawlf and I came back from the Bronx saying "Cawl" and "New Yawk" but I don't inflict that on my listeners.

Sarah's De-G'in of American Speakin' 2008

On the last day we lined up for our official "bawth."

A Yankee in the Trenches Robert Derby Holmes

"You ain't a-go'n 'to talk about tea water to a bloke wot ain't' ad a bawth in seven weeks?"

Kitchener's Mob Adventures of an American in the British Army James Norman Hall 1919

B. is a monitor of English style; wears a monocle, spats, 'i' at, cane, pipe, awful accent, and never makes his appearance without a cawld bawth.

Who Was Who: 5000 B.C. to Date: Biographical Dictionary of the Famous and Those Who Wanted to Be. 1914

Well, we zat us down and thur was tu little maids a-vaacin 'us what' adn 'mwer'n lef' school a yer'tu, and naw zinner do they zet eyes on me than one of 'n whispers zimmat to tither and they bawth starts gazin' at my 'at and laaf'n'.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-11-17 Various 1898

I pointed out to him that it was either death or no bawth.

Heart's Desire Emerson Hough 1890

In New Yorkers’ imagination, the Plaza is so hopelessly enchanting that even Eloise’s “bawth” that flooded the entire hotel on the night of the Venetian Masked Ball could turn into something fabulous — a night in Venice itself, riding around in gondolas.

Evgenia Peretz on the Plaza Peretz, Evgenia 2009

"Maighty pwer graass 'twas tu, but thur was seats, so us ait our paasties thur, and us bawth started crai'in when us bit into un.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-11-17 Various 1898