baskeat

Yola

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

Related terms

• baskaate

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