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Also note here, Shakespeare's probable off-color pun "hoisted with his own petar", i.e., fart, as reason for the spelling "petar" rather than "petard".

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Actually, I think it's "péter" that is French for "fart," but Shakespeare almost certainly meant to pun it that way, and in fact used the spelling "petar".

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The title has total sense in Spanish: peto is a verbal form of verb ‘petar’, that means something like ‘explode’, and, in slang, you could imagine. ‘cacas’ is the plurar form of ‘caca’, that means ‘poop’.

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_ "''T is the sport to see the engineer hoist by his own petar.'"

The Quest of the Silver Fleece A Novel 1915

Why, his excuse was that the popular clamor against the men "who had built up the Western country" was wicked, that he was serving his country in denying the mob "the blood of our best citizens," that Josh Craig was a demagogue who richly deserved to be hoist by his own petar.

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Its bursting would not hurt her with the world, but would be a discovery that she was purely and essentially Protestant, and would be really the "hoisting of the engineer with his own petar."

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