backy
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- noun
- Australian
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patio
- In the evening, we enjoyed a quiet time in the backy, watching the stars.
But it's hard to spell when when an adult man is blowing that backy, that backy smoke into your face.
- But it's hard to spell when when an adult man is blowing that backy, that backy smoke into your face.
Examples
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But it's hard to spell when when an adult man is blowing that backy, that backy smoke into your face.
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You guys to the backy back.
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Maureen, you get there in the backy back.
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He loves to relax in his backy on sunny afternoons.
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They gathered in the backy for a barbecue party.
Synonyms
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1.0
An area of land behind a house used for play and gardening
Surface Forms
Etymology
Backy comes from the simple root back with the friendly ending -y, so it names a small, familiar place 'at the back' of a house — a backyard. A helpful way to remember why backy can also mean tobacco in some places is that people often rolled cigarettes in the back yard, so the same word came to mean the tobacco used there.