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tobacky

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tobacky (uncountable)

  1. (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.

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