BACKARE

Interjection

backare

Alternative form of baccare

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.

Bac*ka"re, interj.

Definition: Same as Baccare.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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