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backdoor|ˈbækˈdɔə(r)|
Also back-door.
[f. back a. + door.]
1. a. A door at the back of a building or enclosure, as opposed to the front-door; a secondary or private entrance.
1530Palsgr. 196/1 Backe dore, huys de derriere. 1535Coverdale Judg. iii. 23 Ehud gat him out at the backe dore. 1712Arbuthnot John Bull (1727) 58 He would stand at the door..to keep off the duns, till John got out at the back-door. 1857Heavysege Saul (1869) 106 They shall sneak in at Gibeah's back-door.
b. back-door trot (fig.); also spec., diarrhœa, dial.
1789D. Sillar Poems 57, I fear they've [sc. letters have] tane the back-door trott, An' miss'd the road. 1801Marvellous Pleasant Love-Story I. xiii. 176 Cooky had for certain put some jalup i' the pudding, for Master George had gotten the back-door-trot with a witness! 1886F. T. Elworthy West Somerset Word-Bk. 37, I be saafe, nif I was vor ate very many o' they there, twid zoon gie me the back⁓door trot.
2. fig.; also attrib. = Unworthily secret, clandestine.
1581G. Pettie tr. Guazzo's Civ. Conv. iii. 32 b The children of the right side..proue doltes..contrariwise, those which come in at the backe doore..auaunce themselves. 1611Shakes. Cymb. v. iii. 45 Hauing found the backe doore open Of the vnguarded hearts. 1700J. Law Counc. Trade (1751) 276 Their back-door to let in mischief. 1805T. Jefferson Writ. (1830) IV. 46 Our back-door counsellors. 1907Daily Chron. 12 Sept. 5/3 Several makers began to do a back-door sort of business. 1957Economist 28 Sept. 1012/2 France did a backdoor deal for Egyptian cotton. 1965New Statesman 30 Apr. 671/3 Having safeguarded their back door with China..the Pakistanis may be tougher about their frontiers with India.
▸ slang. The anus, the rectum.
In quot. 1613 as part of an extended metaphor.
1613J. Marston Insatiate Countesse ii. i, Thais. But you meane they shall come in at the backe-dores. Abig. Who, our Husbands? nay, and they come not in at the fore-dores, there will be no pleasure in't. 1694P. A. Motteux tr. Rabelais Wks. iv. xliv. 170 Joane's back-door was filthily puffing and roaring. 1785J. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue at Back, Back gammon player, a sodomite... Gentleman of the back door, the same. 1810W. Wheeler Let. (1952) 39 Three ounces and a half of the bitter gall Epsom salts, and two hours knapsack drill in double quick time would open my back door. 1916H. N. Cary Slang of Venery I. 8 Back door, the anus... Back door work, sodomy. 1952‘J. Little’ Maybe—Tomorrow iv. 41 Come on dearie..I'm hotter than a bitch dog..ain't had a piece in two days. Ain't ever been up the back door. 1995For Him Mag. Sept. 97/3 Unlike children, dogs respond to other dogs with either a fangs-out lunge or a good sniff around the back door. |