tobacky
English
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[edit]tobacky (uncountable)
- (dialect, informal) tobacco
- 1856, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Wise-saws: or, Sam Slick in search of a wife:
- 'Now,' sais I, ' that invention, beautiful and simple as it is, cost me great thought and much tobacky,' said I, lookin' innocent again...
- 1879, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, composer, “I'm called Little Buttercup”, in H.M.S. Pinafore; […], San Francisco: Bacon & Company, […], →OCLC:
- I've snuff and tobaccy, and excellent jacky,
I've scissors, and watches, and knives
- 2019 December, Justin Blackburn, The Bisexual Christian Suburban Failure Enlightening Bipolar Blues, page 54:
- He spits tobacky at my feet and walks away with his girl so happy together.