Dialectal or archaic term meaning unreliable, untrustworthy, or going backward from a forward commitment.
Obscure origin; possibly from 'back' combined with a suffix, or dialectal variation. Used primarily in historical or regional texts.
This word is so archaic that it appears in almost no modern dictionaries, which means it represents a genuine 'dead' word—English has thousands of these fossils where entire meanings and social concepts have simply been abandoned.
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