different between baccy vs tobacco

English

Alternative forms

• backy

Etymology

From tobacco by shortening, +? -y.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bæki/
• Rhymes: -æki

Noun

baccy (usually uncountable, plural baccies)

1. (slang) Tobacco.
   • 1882, Chums, a tale of the queen's navy (volume 1, page 200)

     To the "Nut" then, with its dirty little smoking-room, clouded with fumes arising from baccies of every description; curling upwards from the short black Irish clay bowl, full of strong ship's baccy, as well as from the best of Havannahs […]

   • 1956, C. S. Lewis, The Last Battle, Collins, 1998, Chapter 13,

     "I'll prove I can see you. You've got a pipe in your mouth." ¶ "Anyone that knows the smell of baccy could tell that," said Diggle.

See also

• wacky baccy

Pitcairn-Norfolk

Noun

baccy

1. tobacco

References

• The Norfuk Language - Single Words and Phrases in Norfuk, spoken

English

Etymology

Attested since 1588, borrowed from Spanish tabaco. The Spanish word is either from Arabic ??????? (?ab?q, “a type of medicinal herb”), also ??????? (?ub?q), or from a Taíno word meaning "roll of tobacco leaves" or "a pipe for smoking tobacco".

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t??bæk.??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /t??bæk.o?/
• Rhymes: -æk??

Noun

tobacco (countable and uncountable, plural tobaccos or tobaccoes)

1. (uncountable) Any plant of the genus Nicotiana.
2. (uncountable) Leaves of Nicotiana tabacum and some other species cultivated and harvested to make cigarettes, cigars, snuff, for smoking in pipes or for chewing.
3. (countable) A variety of tobacco.

Derived terms

• occabot (back slang)

Translations

Verb

tobacco (third-person singular simple present tobaccos, present participle tobaccoing, simple past and past participle tobaccoed)

1. (intransitive) To indulge in tobacco; to smoke.
2. (transitive) To treat with tobacco.
   • 1918, Tropical Diseases Bulletin (volume 12, page 412)

     The most satisfactory method of tobaccoing houses is that of stitching the leaves on to a piece of cloth like a strip of matting, which is then laid on the floor. Powdered tobacco should be introduced into rat holes, which can then be firmly closed up with bricks and mortar. Experiments carried out in the City of Hyderabad seem to have been very satisfactory.

See also

• baccy, backy
• chop chop
• smoke

References

Anagrams

• occabot