Hyphenation
beast with two BacksTurkish pronunciation
bist wîdh tu bäksPronunciation
/ˈbēst wəᴛʜ ˈto͞o ˈbaks/ /ˈbiːst wɪð ˈtuː ˈbæks/
Etymology
() First attested in English by Shakespeare in Othello, 1603. Supposedly a translation of the French "la beste à deux doz" from Gargantua and Pantagruel, 1534, by François Rabelais.