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▪ I. ‖ tara, n.|ˈtɑːrə|
[? Native name in Tasmania.]
The edible fern of Tasmania and New Zealand, a variety of the common brake, Pteris aquilina var. esculenta. Also tara fern.
1834Ross Van Diemen's Land Ann. 129 (Morris Austral Eng.) The most extensively diffused eatable roots..are those of the tara fern..[which] greatly resembles Pteris aquilina, the common fern, brake,..or brackin, of England,..it is known among the aborigines by the name of tara.
▪ II. tara, int.1
An exclamation. (Cf. F. tarare; also taratantara.)
In quot. 1672, it occurs in a passage burlesquing a scene in Dryden's Tyrannic Love iv. i.
1672Villiers (Dk. Buckhm.) Rehearsal v. i. (Arb.) 113, 1 King. Tara, tara, tara, full East and by South. 2 King. We sail with Thunder in our mouth. 1922Joyce Ulysses 166 Tara tara. Great chorus that. Tara. Must be washed in rainwater. Meyerbeer. Tara: bom bom bom. Ibid. 503 Exercise your mnemotechnic. La causa è santa. Tara. Tara.
▪ III. tara, int.2|təˈrɑː|
Also tarra(h, etc.
Colloq. (mainly North.) alteration of ta-ta, in familiar use.
1958A. Sillitoe Saturday Night & Sunday Morning ii. 27 ‘See yer't dinnertime, Arthur.’ ‘Tarr-ar, Dad.’ 1967E. Williams Beyond Belief i. i. 6 They are off arm in arm to Belle Vue. Ta-ra-for-now, they call out, the warm casual Lancashire way of saying goodbye, ‘ta ra!’ 1973B. Bainbridge Dressmaker iii. 39 ‘Tarrah, Valerie!’ called Rita up the stairs. ‘Thank you very much for having me.’ 1981B. Hines Looks & Smiles 121 ‘I'm off now, Mum, ta-ra.’ ‘Ta-ra, love. See you tonight.’ |