backake

Obsolete spelling of backache.

Noun

  1. Obsolete spelling 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:
    • 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...
    • Must get som supplys & som backake ointmint. - 2010, Joel Greenberg, Of Prairie, Woods, and Water: Two Centuries of Chicago Nature Writing, →ISBN:

Origin

From back + ake.

Forms

backakes