tobaccoish

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

tobacco +‎ -ish

Adjective[edit]

tobaccoish (comparative more tobaccoish, superlative most tobaccoish)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of tobacco.
    • 2009 April 12, Kate Christensen, “Always on My Mind”, in New York Times[1]:
      And a too-sweet, tobaccoish residue lingered in Julian from his unchecked fantasies, and he laughed at himself (so like his father wrapping a fur stole around Billie Holiday’s shoulders), and he laughed at Cait O’Dwyer’s sorcery, and he wondered if, in her real life, she required a steady diet of recent heartbreak in order to manufacture fresh emotion for her consumers.