different between jackal vs backal

English

Etymology

From French chacal, chacale, checale, schakal, ciacale, from Turkish çakal, from Persian ????? (ša?âl).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?æk?l/
• Rhymes: -æk?l

Noun

jackal (plural jackals)

1. Any of certain wild canids of the genus Canis, native to the tropical Old World and smaller than a wolf.
   • 1987, Brenda E. F. Beck, Peter J. Claus, Praphulladatta Goswami, Jawaharlal Handoo (editors), Folktales of India, page 289,

     In passing, it also mentions how the jackal and the tiger acquired their reddish spots. All of the animals referred to, except the deer, have tricksterlike personalities, both in this tale and in other story contexts. But the jackal is the most renowned of all for roguishness.
2. A person who performs menial/routine tasks, a dogsbody.
3. (derogatory) A person who behaves in an opportunistic way; especially a base collaborator.
4. (slang, rare) A jack (the playing card).

Hypernyms

• (any of certain wild canids of genus Canis): canid, dog

Hyponyms

• (any of certain wild canids of genus Canis): golden jackal (Canis aureus); black-backed jackal (Canis mesomelas, Cape jackal, East African jackal); side-striped jackal (Canis adustus)

Derived terms

• American jackal (coyote)
• Simien jackal (Ethiopian wolf)

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ????? (jakkaru)
• ? Korean: ?? (jakal)
• ? Malay: jakal
  • Indonesian: jakal
• ? Thai: ??????? (j??k-kal)

Translations

See also

• (canids) canid; coyote, dog, fox, jackal, wolf ^{(Category: en:Canids)}

References

• Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ?ISBN

Verb

jackal (third-person singular simple present jackals, present participle jackalling, simple past and past participle jackalled)

1. To perform menial or routine tasks
   • 1800, Pamphlets on British Taxation^[3]:

     They have jackalled for the great beast, to pick in turns the bones of each other; they have subserved those above, to oppress and defraud those below; and they are suffering, and, so far as classes can, justly suffering their purgation.

English

Etymology

back +? -al, in humorous reference to frontal. Used since at least the 1970s.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æk?l

Adjective

backal (not comparable)

1. (humorous, especially of nudity) Of or involving a person's back (rather than the front or side).

   full backal nudity

   • 1977, New Times:

     In television, the final refuge of Victorianism, eroticism is the great no-no. "I have coined the expression: 'At NBC, we don't show frontal, backal or sidal nudity,'" Traviesas says. "Although I squirm a little — we are showing more backal nudity."

   • 1989 August 24, Blair P. Houghton, LeMovie, rec.bicycles, Usenet, quoting an earlier post by Daniel Mocsny:

     I'll have to draw the line at frontal nudity, but I would consider backal or sidal nudity, provided I get a good percentage of [...]

   • 1991 June 10, Synth F. Oberheim, Nudity in The Terminator, alt.cult-movies, Usenet:

     There is a Full Backal shot as Arnold looks out over the L.A. skyline, and a distant shot, Full Frontal, as he is approaching the punks, [...]

   • 1992 September 2, William G. Martin, First "Full-backal" nudity on TV? (was Re: GOING TO EXTREMES), rec.arts.tv, Usenet:

     Was the full-backal-nudity shot of the lady doctor radiology instructor a first for a network prime-time series, or have I just been leading too sheltered a life, and such shots are common nowadays?

   • 2007 September 28, Bob Mondello, "Coming Soon, to a Theater Near You: Naked People", All Things Considered, National Public Radio

     Movie nudity has a long history in Hollywood.... And a lot of different kinds. Male and female, partial and full, frontal and ... backal?

Coordinate terms

• frontal, sidal