baskeat

Yola

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle English basket, from Anglo-Norman bascat, from Late Latin bascauda (“kettle, table-vessel”).

This would point to the slang of the ring, where the breast is called the bread-basket.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /basˈkɛːt/

Noun

baskeat

  1. (figurative) breast

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 25
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