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Oddly, borak was coupled with the verb poke in the phrase to poke borak at , meaning to deride, and this was close enough to the transitive use of the verb barrack ridicule, jeer at, verbally abuse to suggest that the two might be connected.
An impeccable, moustachioed Sergeant Major MacMahan, gaunt like all the others, wearing the beret and polished insignia of a Scots regiment, stood erect as a flagpole at one end of the barrack hut surveying it all, the angel in charge.
barrack ( n .) Four poles with a movable roof to protect hay.
Yet another Aboriginal word, borak , was held by some to be the etymon of barrack , although the probability has to be that this is a British regional dialect word given a new lease of life in fresh circumstances.
So barrack , attested as a Northern Irish term for bragging, shifts slightly but not contextually in meaning to the vociferous denigration of a sporting team or a participant in a fight, and admits the converse of this in the intransitive verb barrack for support.