bacca
Americannoun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of bacca
From the Latin word bacca, bāca “olive, any round fruit, berry”
Example Sentences
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Tobacco may be an evil weed to some, but to the farmers who grow it, "bacca" has long been manna.
From Time Magazine Archive
“I’d change mine any day for a plug o’ Jeemes River bacca; thet wud I sartint.”
From The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse by Reid, Mayne
It was there, sure enough, along wi’ my steel bacca-box, and there was bacca there too, an’ a bit o’ flint to get a light.
From Seven Frozen Sailors by Fenn, George Manville
Yes! bacca makes an old man's chair as easeful as a bed of roses.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 105, July 8th 1893 by Various
So I ran down to Birling Gap thinking—thinking—" he coughed—"she might a—a—be bringing me a little present from France—a bit o bacca, or dallop o tea, or what not, ye know….
From The Gentleman A Romance of the Sea by Ollivant, Alfred
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