baker's dozen

Etymology


Possibly from the former practice of bakers adding a thirteenth loaf of bread to a batch of twelve loaves in order to avoid punishment for accidentally selling underweight bread.

Noun

 * 1)  Thirteen; a group of thirteen.
 * 2)  A cousin.
 * 1)  A cousin.
 * 1)  A cousin.
 * 1)  A cousin.
 * 1)  A cousin.
 * 1)  A cousin.
 * 1)  A cousin.
 * 1)  A cousin.
 * 1)  A cousin.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: дяволска дузина
 * Catalan:
 * Czech: čertův tucet
 * Danish: bagerdusin
 * Dutch: ,
 * Estonian: kuraditosin
 * Finnish: piruntusina
 * French:
 * Galician: ducia de frade
 * German: Bäckerdutzend
 * Hindi: नानबाई का दर्जन
 * Irish: dosaen báicéara
 * Korean: 베이커의 다스
 * Macedonian: пекарска дузина
 * Manx: dussan liauyr
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: bakerdusin
 * Portuguese:, dúzia de treze
 * Russian: чёртова дю́жина
 * Spanish: docena del fraile
 * Ukrainian: чо́ртова дю́жина
 * Welsh: dwsin pobydd