bacca
(ˈbækə)
Also baccah, baccer.
Colloq. clipped forms of tobacco. (Cf. bacco, baccy, backer.)
| 1824 J. Wight Mornings at Bow Street 36 She told him her new lover ‘couldn't abide the smell of baccah’. 1835 M. H. Barker Tough Yarns 10 He whips out his old quid, flings it into the fire, and we sported a fresh bit o' bacca. 1837 Dickens in Bentley's Miscellany Jan. 62 Are you going to put down pipes... Or trace the progress of crime to 'baccer? 1847 E. Brontë Wuthering Heights II. vii. 128 Joseph's 'bacca pipe is poison. 1920 D. H. Lawrence Touch & Go i. i. 16 They'll give you plenty to eat..and a bit of bacca. |