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sassarara

sassarara noun: siserary.

Noun

sassarara (plural not attested)

  1. (no plural, obsolete) Siserary.
    • Lest misfortune enter here, Let us now debar her, Tossing off Canary cups With a Sassarara!1660, The Bonfire at Temple-Bar
    • Out she shall pack, with a sassarara.1766, Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield

Examples of sassarara in a sentence

  • In pages 419-423, we give you a sweetly somnific dose; but hark! we wake our readers, at last, with a flaming sassarara in thunder : viz .1808, A Surry Belwether, “Evangelical Magazine for October, 1808”, in Satirist: Or Monthly Meteor, volume 3, page 357:
  • I'll stop it out o' your 'lowance, mind that now—and mighty brazen in him it was for to dar for to hoik it off wi him, but I'll give him a sassarara for it.1820, The Orientalist; Or Electioneering in Ireland; a Tale:
  • If ye don't, I ' ll sarve ye wi ' a sassarara, and have ye arranged and parsecuted according to law, that's all.1828, Charles Marsh, The Clubs of London, page 196:
  • they and I were talking of one thing or other, one night, over our punch, when, all of a sudden, there comes the sorrows of a sassarara at the door; and Lord save us, says I; who have we got here?1835, Michael Banim, The Mayor of Wind-gap, page 270:

Origin of sassarara

Perhaps a corruption of certiorari (“a kind of writ”).

Questions about sassarara

What does sassarara mean?
Sassarara means siserary.
How do you use sassarara in a sentence?
In pages 419-423, we give you a sweetly somnific dose; but hark! we wake our readers, at last, with a flaming sassarara in thunder : viz .
What part of speech is sassarara?
Sassarara is a noun.

Words near sassarara in the dictionary

  1. Sassanide
  2. Sassanides
  3. Sassanids
  4. Sassano
  5. Sassanos
  6. sassarara
  7. Sassarese
  8. Sassaresi
  9. Sassari
  10. sasse
  11. sassed

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