tobacco

English Online Dictionary. What means tobacco‎? What does tobacco mean?

English

Alternative forms

• tabacco (obsolete)

Etymology

Attested since 1588, borrowed from Spanish tabaco. The Spanish word could be from Arabic طُبَّاق (ṭubbāq, “Dittrichia viscosa”) or from a Caribbean language such as Kari'na or Taíno or multiple of them, from a word meaning "roll of tobacco leaves" or "a pipe for smoking tobacco," such as tabago (“tube for inhaling smoke or powdered intoxicating plants”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /təˈbæk.əʊ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /təˈbæk.oʊ/
• Rhymes: -ækəʊ

Noun

tobacco (countable and uncountable, plural tobaccos or tobaccoes)

1. (uncountable) Any plant of the genus Nicotiana.
2. (uncountable) Leaves of Nicotiana tabacum and some other species cultivated and harvested to make cigarettes, cigars, snuff, for smoking in pipes or for chewing.
3. (countable) A variety of tobacco.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

tobacco (third-person singular simple present tobaccos, present participle tobaccoing, simple past and past participle tobaccoed)

1. (intransitive) To indulge in tobacco; to smoke.
2. (transitive) To treat with tobacco.

See also

• baccy, backy
• chop chop
• smoke

References

Anagrams

• occabot