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backaching

backaching adjective: causing a pain in one's back.

Adjective

backaching

  1. Causing a pain in one's back.
    • Then the rest of us had to crawl on hands and knees slowly towards the tree picking up the things. It was dull and backaching.1957, Charles Anscomb, Submariner, page 160
    • Hedging, as I was learning, is not just skilled work but also cold, rugged, muddy, and backaching.1993, National Geographic (volume 84? 184? page 110)

Origin of backaching

From back + aching.

Questions about backaching

What does backaching mean?
Backaching means causing a pain in one's back.
What part of speech is backaching?
Backaching is an adjective.

Words near backaching in the dictionary

  1. backable
  2. backabush
  3. backache
  4. backaches
  5. backachey
  6. backaching
  7. backachy
  8. backacter
  9. backacters
  10. backaction
  11. backactions

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