Meanings
comparative more tobaccoish · superlative most tobaccoish
- Resembling or characteristic of tobacco.
1 more example
And a too-sweet, tobaccoish residue lingered in Julian from his unchecked fantasies, and he laughed at himself (so like his father wrapping a fur stole around Billie Holiday’s shoulders), and he laughed at Cait O’Dwyer’s sorcery, and he wondered if, in her real life, she required a steady diet of recent heartbreak in order to manufacture fresh emotion for her consumers.
2009 April 12, Kate Christensen, “Always on My Mind”, in New York Times
Origin
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tobaccoish. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tobaccoish
“tobaccoish.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tobaccoish. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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