baccy

• backy

From tobacco by shortening, +‎ -y.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbæki/

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• Rhymes: -æki
• Homophone: bakkie

baccy (usually uncountable, plural baccies)

1. (slang) Tobacco.
   • 1882, Chums: A Tale of the Queen's Navy, volume 1, page 200:

     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 […]

   • 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 168:

     No 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.

   • 1956, C. S. Lewis, chapter 13, in The Last Battle, Collins, published 1998:

     "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.

• wacky baccy

From English baccy.

baccy

1. tobacco

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