tobacco
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Attested since 1588, borrowed from Spanish tabaco. The Spanish word could be from Arabic طُبَّاق (ṭubbāq, “Dittrichia viscosa”) or from a Caribbean language such as Kari'na or Taíno or multiple of them, from a word meaning "roll of tobacco leaves" or "a pipe for smoking tobacco," such as tabago (“tube for inhaling smoke or powdered intoxicating plants”).
Inflected forms:
form: tobaccos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tobaccoes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tabacco
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: tobaccos
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tobaccoing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tobaccoed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tobaccoed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: tabacco
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Any plant of the genus Nicotiana.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Leaves of Nicotiana tabacum and some other species cultivated and harvested to make cigarettes, cigars, snuff, for smoking in pipes or for chewing.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Tobacco and the plant valerian are also considered to be anaphrodisiac in their effects, diminishing sexual inclination.
Tobacco-settlement bonds are a tribute both to the inventiveness of bankers and the childlike impatience of politicians.
City councilors in Newton have approved a generational ban on tobacco and e-cigarette sales in the city that will prohibit purchases by anyone born after March 1, 2004, joining a growing number of Massachusetts communities that have passed measures to curb tobacco use among young people.
gloss: A variety of tobacco.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Tobaccos from the Connecticut Valley were used for wrapping cigars.
gloss: To indulge in tobacco; to smoke.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To treat with tobacco.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
Related words: baccy
backy
chop chop
smoke
Derived words: antitobacco
antitobaccoite
Aztec tobacco
big tobacco
California rabbit tobacco
chewing tobacco
coyote tobacco
green tobacco sickness
heated tobacco
Indian tobacco
ladies' tobacco
mountain tobacco
native tobacco
nigger tobacco
nontobacco
occabot
Oriental tobacco
protobacco
Queen's tobacco-pipe
rabbit tobacco
sailor's tobacco
teabacco
tobaccanalian
tobacciana
tobacco beetle
tobacco budworm
Tobacco Caye
tobacco dove
tobacco dust juice
tobaccoey
tobaccofied
tobacco-free
tobacco heart
tobacco hornworm
tobaccoish
tobaccoism
tobaccoite
tobacco juice
tobaccoless
tobaccolike
tobacco lime
tobaccoman
tobacco mosaic
tobacco moth
tobacconalian
tobacconist
tobaccophile
tobaccophobe
tobacco pipe
tobacco rattle
Tobacco Road
tobacco-roader
tobacco-sick
tobacco splitworm
Tobacco State
tobacco-stopper
tobacco thrips
tobacco water
tobacco wireworm
tomacco
tree tobacco
Turkish tobacco
wild tobacco
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