tobacconing

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verb

Smoking tobacco.

Scrabble 18
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Meanings

verb
  1. obsoleterareSmoking tobacco.

    the Habit of TOBACCONING, Makes one more Chimny-like than any thing

    1608, [Guillaume de Salluste] Du Bartas, translated by Josuah Sylvester, Du Bartas His Deuine Weekes and Workes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Humfrey Lownes [and are to be sold by Arthur Iohnson […]], published 1611, →OCLC
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    Neither was it any newes upon this Guild-day to have the Cathedrall now open on all ſides to be filled with Muskatiers, wayting for the Majors returne, drinking and tobacconing as freely as if it had turn'd Alehouſe.

    1647 June 8 (Gregorian calendar), Joseph Hall, “Bishop Hall’s Hard Measure”, in The Shaking of the Olive-Tree. The Remaining Works of that Incomparable Prelate Joseph Hall, D.D. […], London: […] J. Cadwel for J[ohn] Crooke, […], published 1660, →OCLC, pages 63–64

Origin

From tobacco + -n- + -ing.

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tobacconing. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tobacconing

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Chicago

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