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baccare

baccare interjection: stand back! give place!

Interjection

  1. (obsolete) Stand back! give place!
    • Baccare! you are marvelous forward.c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

Forms of baccare

alternative formbackare

Origin of baccare

back and Latin -āre. A cant word of the Elizabethan writers, probably in ridicule of some person who pretended to a knowledge of Latin which he did not possess.

Questions about baccare

What does baccare mean?
Baccare means stand back! give place!
What part of speech is baccare?
Baccare is an interjection.

Words near baccare in the dictionary

  1. Baccam
  2. Baccams
  3. baccara
  4. baccarat
  5. baccarats
  6. baccare
  7. Baccari
  8. Baccarin
  9. Baccaris
  10. baccate
  11. baccated

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