Meanings
plural baccies · alternative backy
- slanguncountableusuallyTobacco.
"I'll prove I can see you. You've got a pipe in your mouth." ¶ "Anyone that knows the smell of baccy could tell that," said Diggle.
1956, C. S. Lewis, chapter 13, in The Last Battle, Collins, published 19982 more examples
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 […]
1882, Chums: A Tale of the Queen's Navy, volume 1, page 200No 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.
1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 168
Synonyms & antonyms
nounleaves of the tobacco plant dried and prepared for smoking or ingestion
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Origin
From tobacco by shortening, + -y.
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baccy. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/baccy
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