释义 |
† backare, baccare, int. Obs. [Origin doubtful; perhaps for back there! or back-er (= farther back); Nares says the allusion is to an ignorant man who affected to speak Latin, in accordance with which Webster makes the word trisyllabic.] Back! stand back! give place!
a1553Udall Roister D. (Arb.) 16 Ah sir, Backare quod Mortimer to his sowe. 1592Lyly Mydas i. ii. 10 The masculine gender is more worthy than the feminine, therefore Licio—backare. 1596Shakes. Tam. Shr. ii. i. 72 Let vs that are poore petitioners speake too. Bacare, you are meruaylous forward. 1660in Howell Eng. Prov. (as in 1553). |