different between tobacco vs cigarillo

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

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish cigarrillo, from cigarro (“cigar”) + -illo (“diminutive suffix”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?s??????lo?/

Noun

cigarillo (plural cigarillos or cigarilloes)

1. A thin cigar, differing from a cigarette in being wrapped with tobacco leaves rather than paper.

Translations

Spanish

Pronunciation

Noun

cigarillo m (plural cigarillos)

1. Nonstandard form of cigarrillo.