baccare! excl.
go back!
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Ralph Roister Doister II i: Ah sir, Backare quod Mortimer to his sowe. | |
| Taming of the Shrew II i: Let us, that are poor petitioners, speak too. Baccare! you are marvellous forward. | |
| Vpon Eng. Prouerbes 42/1: Baccare quoth Mortimer vnto his sowe: But wheres a Mortimer to say so now? | |
| Eng. Proverbs Backare quod Mortimer to his sowe: But wheres a Mortimer to say so now? | |
| Gloss. (1888) I 44: baccare. A cant word, meaning, go back, used in allusion to a proverbial saying, ‘Backare, quoth Mortimer to his sow;’ probably made in ridicule of some man who affected a knowledge of Latin without having it, and who produced his latinized English words on the most trivial occasions. |