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baccy

noun

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Pronunciation: /ˈbæki/

noun

Etymology: From tobacco by shortening, + -y.

  1. Tobacco.

    To the "Nut" then, with its dirty little smoking-room, clouded with fumes arising from baccies of every description; curling upwards from the short black Irish clay bowl, full of strong ship's baccy, as well as from the best of Havannahs […]

    No one ever see him down on his luck till this cussed fever took him, Our rations was often short, but it was share and share alike down to the last pipe o' baccy.