sassarara

Lest misfortune enter here, Let us now debar her, Tossing off Canary cups With a Sassarara!

1660, The Bonfire at Temple-Bar

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?”

1808, A Surry Belwether, “Evangelical Magazine for October, 1808”, in Satirist: Or Monthly Meteor, volume 3, page 357

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.

1820, The Orientalist; Or Electioneering in Ireland; a Tale

If ye don't, I ' ll sarve ye wi ' a sassarara, and have ye arranged and parsecuted according to law, that's all.

1828, Charles Marsh, The Clubs of London, page 196

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?

1835, Michael Banim, The Mayor of Wind-gap, page 270