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Word entry · 7 letters

barrack

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"Jeer at"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPronunciation /ˈbæɹ.ək/Part of speech verb, nounSorted aabckrrStarts with BEnds with K1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. laugh at with contempt and derision

Word origin

Borrowed from French baraque, from Spanish barraca or Catalan barraca, which is of uncertain origin. It is probably either a diminutive of Vulgar Latin *barra (“bar”), of unclear origin, or a diminutive of Vulgar Latin *barrum (“clay, mud”) from Celtiberian or Paleo-Hispanic.

Used in a sentence

  • Before the gates of Bari, he lodged in a miserable hut or barrack, composed of dry branches, and thatched with straw; a perilous station, on all sides open to the inclemency of the winter and the spears of the enemy.
  • I know the barracks at the training camp out on the moors.
  • Where the men were barracked alone, unnatural crime prevailed : where the women were barracked, contrivances were made to render such a place a brothel.

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