tobacco

plural tobaccos · plural tobaccoes · alternative obsolete tabacco

1. uncountableAny plant of the genus Nicotiana.
2. uncountableLeaves of Nicotiana tabacum and some other species cultivated and harvested to make cigarettes, cigars, snuff, for smoking in pipes or for chewing.

   Tobacco and the plant valerian are also considered to be anaphrodisiac in their effects, diminishing sexual inclination.

   1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 11

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   Tobacco-settlement bonds are a tribute both to the inventiveness of bankers and the childlike impatience of politicians.

   2013 September 7, “Unlucky strike”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8852, archived from the original on 04 Aug 2020

   City councilors in Newton have approved a generational ban on tobacco and e-cigarette sales in the city that will prohibit purchases by anyone born after March 1, 2004, joining a growing number of Massachusetts communities that have passed measures to curb tobacco use among young people.

   2025 January 22, Nick Stoico, “Newton city council approves generational tobacco ban, joining other Mass. towns”, in Boston Globe, archived from the original on 23 Jan 2025

3. countableA variety of tobacco.

   Tobaccos from the Connecticut Valley were used for wrapping cigars.

present singular third person tobaccos · participle present tobaccoing · participle past tobaccoed · past tobaccoed · alternative obsolete tabacco

1. intransitiveTo indulge in tobacco; to smoke.
2. transitiveTo treat with tobacco.

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   The most satisfactory method of tobaccoing houses is that of stitching the leaves on to a piece of cloth like a strip of matting, which is then laid on the floor. Powdered tobacco should be introduced into rat holes, which can then be firmly closed up with bricks and mortar. Experiments carried out in the City of Hyderabad seem to have been very satisfactory.

   1918, Tropical Diseases Bulletin, volume 12, page 412

1. Two rivers in Michigan, United States.
2. A township in Gladwin County, Michigan, probably named after one of the rivers.