To which he flung a wrathful answer back:
'And if there were an hundred in the wood,
Dictionary Entry
To reply impertinently; to talk back.
In a Sentence
“I'll thank you not to answer back like that! Where are your manners?”
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Seen In Poems
Poetry examples for “answer back”
— Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Through all its lava-black
Cones that cast answer back
And cliffs of footless track
I have startled a hundred eyes, and I must look
Them an answer back. It is more than I can bear.