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English
Etymology
From back + ake.
Noun
backake (countable and uncountable, plural backakes)
- (obsolete) Rare spelling of backache.
1847, Camden Miscellany - Volume 39, page 8:At 3 o'clock I went to Lady Anne, and (considering her distemper) found her very well, without any headake, backake, or fever.
1934, George Starr White, The Emancipation of Women: Or Regulating the Duration of the Menses:Was referd to me, because of her obstinate constipation along with a continual backake that made her lie down several times daily.
2010, Joel Greenberg, Of Prairie, Woods, and Water: Two Centuries of Chicago Nature Writing, →ISBN:Must get som supplys & som backake ointmint.