or bakkare, intj. (old cant).—Go back! give place! Away!
[1473. MARKWORTH, Chronicle, 1461–74 (CAMDEN), 22. And aflyre … it aroose north-est, and so BAKKERE and BAKKERE.]
1534. UDALL, Roister Doister, i. 2 [DODSLEY, Old Plays (HAZLITT), iii. 65]. Ah, sir! BACKARE, quod Mortimer to his sow.
d. 1565. HEYWOOD, Epigrams. Shall I consume myself, to restore him now; Nay BACKARE, quoth Mortimer to his sow. Ibid., Epigrams. BACKARE, quoth Mortimer to his sow, see Mortimer’s sow speaketh as good Latyn as hee. Ibid. BACKARE, quoth Mortimer to his sow: Went that sow backe at that bidding, trow you?
1577. Golden Aphroditus [HALLIWELL]. Both trumpe and drumme sounded nothing for their larum but BACCARE, BACCARE.
1592. J. LYLY, Midas, v. 2. The masculine gender is more worthy than the feminine. Therefore, Licio, BACKARE.
1593. SHAKESPEARE, Taming of the Shrew, ii. 1. Saving your tale, Petruchio, I pray Let us, that are poor petitioners, speak too; BACCARE! you are marvellous forward.
1660. HOWELL, English Proverbs, s.v.
1822. NARES, Glossary, s.v. BACCARE … 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.
