BACCARE

Etymology

Interjection

baccare

(obsolete) Stand back! give place! — 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.

Anagrams

• braccae

Source: Wiktionary


Bac*ca"re, Bac*ka"re, interj.

Definition: Stand back! give place! -- 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. Baccare! you are marvelous forward. Shak.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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