Lundyfoot
(ˈlʌndɪfʊt)
[Named after Lundy Foot, a Dublin tobacconist, whose address is given as 8 Essex Bridge in Wilson's Dublin Directory 1776.]
A kind of snuff.
| 1811 Ora & Juliet IV. 187 The sportive zephyrs carried the high-dried Lundyfoot into the eyes of the whole party. 1822 Blackw. Mag. XI. 370* He took so much of Lundy-Foot, That he used to snort and snuffle. 1866 Daily Tel. 11 Jan. 5/1 A pinch of Lundyfoot or brown Rappee. |