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backake en · NOUN

Etymology

From back + ake.

Meanings

1. (alt-of, countable, obsolete, uncountable) Obsolete spelling of backache.
   alt of backache
   • At 3 o'clock I went to Lady Anne, and (considering her distemper) found her very well, without any headake, backake, or fever. 1847, Camden Miscellany - Volume 39, page 8:
   • Must get som supplys & som backake ointmint. 2010, Joel Greenberg, Of Prairie, Woods, and Water: Two Centuries of Chicago Nature Writing, →ISBN:
   • Was referd to me, because of her obstinate constipation along with a continual backake that made her lie down several times daily. 1934, George Starr White, The Emancipation of Women: Or Regulating the Duration of the Menses:

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