bacco, baccy
vulgar abbreviations of tobacco.
| 1792 W. B. Stevens Jrnl. 9 July (1965) 36 Thou hast got a Crescent like my ‘Bacco Box’. 1793 C. Dibdin in Britannic Mag. I. 249/1 The tender motto written fair Upon his 'bacco-box he views. 1818 R. Wilbraham Gloss. Cheshire 9 Bacco, tobacco. 1833 Marryat P. Simple (1863) 9 ‘You must larn to chaw baccy.’ 1853 Mrs. Gaskell Cranford xiii. 249 But the 'bacco, and the other things ―. 1859 T. Hughes Scouring White Horse i. 8 Your bacchy's nearly out, Dick. 1860 All Y. Round No. 57. 161 His wife has found his 'bacco-box. 1906 Kipling Puck of Pook's Hill 251 Five and twenty ponies, Trotting through the dark—Brandy for the Parson, 'Baccy for the Clerk. 1933 ‘G. Orwell’ Down & Out xxvi. 188 [Irish tramp speaking] Dere's sixpennorth o' good baccy here! |