sassarara

English edit

Etymology edit

Perhaps a corruption of certiorari (“a kind of writ”).

Noun edit

sassarara (plural not attested)

(obsolete) Used to emphasize a statement.
- 1766, Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield:
  Out she shall pack, with a sassarara.

References edit

“sassarara”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “sassarara”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)