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tobacconing

tobacconing verb: smoking tobacco.

Verb

tobacconing

  1. (obsolete, rare) Smoking tobacco.
    • the Habit of TOBACCONING, Makes one more Chimny-like than any thing1608, [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...
    • 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....

Origin of tobacconing

From tobacco + -n- + -ing.

Questions about tobacconing

What does tobacconing mean?
Tobacconing means smoking tobacco.
What part of speech is tobacconing?
Tobacconing is a verb.

Words near tobacconing in the dictionary

  1. tobaccolike
  2. tobaccoman
  3. tobaccomen
  4. tobacconalian
  5. tobacconalians
  6. tobacconing
  7. tobacconist
  8. tobacconist's
  9. tobacconistic
  10. tobacconistical
  11. tobacconists

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