sassarara

English

Etymology

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

Noun

sassarara (plural not attested)

(obsolete) Siserary.
- 1660, The Bonfire at Temple-Bar:
  Lest misfortune enter here, Let us now debar her, Tossing off Canary cups With a Sassarara!
- 1766, Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield:
  Out she shall pack, with a sassarara.
- 1808, A Surry Belwether, “Evangelical Magazine for October, 1808”, in Satirist: Or Monthly Meteor, volume 3, page 357:
  In pages 419-423, we give you a sweetly somnific dose; but hark! we wake our readers, at last, with a flaming sassarara in thunder : viz . "Who shall dwell with everlasting burnings?”
- 1820, The Orientalist; Or Electioneering in Ireland; a Tale:
  I'll stop it out o' your 'lowance, mind that now—and mighty brazen in him it was for to dar for to hoik it off wi him, but I'll give him a sassarara for it.
- 1828, Charles Marsh, The Clubs of London, page 196:
  If ye don't, I ' ll sarve ye wi ' a sassarara, and have ye arranged and parsecuted according to law, that's all.
- 1835, Michael Banim, The Mayor of Wind-gap, page 270:
  they and I were talking of one thing or other, one night, over our punch, when, all of a sudden, there comes the sorrows of a sassarara at the door; and Lord save us, says I; who have we got here?
- 1849, George William M. Reynolds, The mysteries of the court of London, page 16:
  He denounced the coffee as ditch-water—the bacon as musty—the eggs as tasting of straw—and the butter as train-oil; and he was just inflicting a sassarara upon the waiter for not keeping up a cheerful fire , when the door opened, and , to the ineffable dismay of the commercial traveller, Mr. Hodson entered the room.

References

“sassarara”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.