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sot-weed

sot-weed noun: tobacco.

Noun

sot-weed (countable and uncountable, plural sot-weeds)

  1. (archaic) tobacco
    • These Sot-weed Planters Crowd the Shoar [more recent explanatory foot-note] Sot-Weed, i. e. the sot making or inebriating weed; a name for tobacco, used at that time. A Sot-weed Factor, was a tobacco agent or supercargo.1708, Ebenezer Cooke, The Sot-weed Factor: or, A Voyage to Maryland. A Satyr. In which is Describ'd The Laws, Government, Courts and Constitutions of the Country, and also the Buildings, Feasts...
    • The Sot-Weed Factor [title]1960, John Barth, The Sot-Weed Factor, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, →OCLC, page 518

Forms of sot-weed

pluralsot-weeds
alternative formsotweed
alternative formsot weed

Origin of sot-weed

From sot (“a stupified, stupid, inebriated, addicted, or infatuated person”), and weed.

Questions about sot-weed

What does sot-weed mean?
Sot-weed means tobacco.
What part of speech is sot-weed?
Sot-weed is a noun.
What is the plural of sot-weed?
The plural of sot-weed is sot-weeds.

Words near sot-weed in the dictionary

  1. Sostres
  2. sostrum
  3. sosumba
  4. sosumi
  5. sot
  6. sot-weed
  7. SOTA
  8. Sotadean
  9. sotadic
  10. Sotadic Zone
  11. Sotadics

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