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nounsmutchin (uncountable)
- obsoleteuncountablesnuff
The Spaniards and Irish take it [tobacco] most in Powder or Smutchin, and it mightily refreshes the Brain, and I believe there's as much taken this Way in Ireland as there is in Pipes in England
1655, James Howell, “to Henry Hopkins, Esq.”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], 3rd edition, volume (please specify the page), London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], →OCLC
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