bacca

[ bak-uh ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, Botany.

, plural bac·cae [bak, -ee].

Origin of bacca¹

From the Latin word bacca, bāca “olive, any round fruit, berry”

"I killed that with bacca-smoke," he concluded in sepulchral triumph.

De 'bacca worms an' de grasshoppas is a-gwine to chew up all de terbacca befo' men gits a chawnce at it.

"I'll bet yer a pound of bacca on the little 'un," growled one of the sailors, as he leaned against a bulkhead.

Bacca am de greatest pleasure dat de slabes hab after their work be done.

You got a great many oder nice tings a slabe not got, many nice tings; but when dey got bacca dey got eberyting dey want.

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