different between tobacco vs smokehouse

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

smoke +? house

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?smo?k?ha?s/

Noun

smokehouse (plural smokehouses)

1. A structure used to smoke food to preserve it and to add flavor.
2. A structure in which freshly harvested tobacco is cured or preserved by smoking.

Synonyms

• (structure to smoke food): smokery

Translations