baccy

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From tobacco by shortening, + -y.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbæki/
  • 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


Pitcairn-Norfolk

Noun

baccy

  1. tobacco

References

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