bacca
Americannoun
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baccae
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of bacca
From the Latin word bacca, bāca “olive, any round fruit, berry”
Example Sentences
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Tobacco may be an evil weed to some, but to the farmers who grow it, "bacca" has long been manna.
From Time Magazine Archive
You sho' saved our lives that time, partner," he cried; "we done forgot the bacca when we wus getting up our supplies, an' didn't find it out until we'd come too far to go back.
From The Boy Chums in the Forest or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades by J. Watson Davis
Yes! bacca makes an old man's chair as easeful as a bed of roses.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 105, July 8th 1893 by Various
When they gate back th' whole haase wor full o' bacca smook, in bedrooms an passages, on th' steps, in th' sittin rooms, ther wor thick white claads ov it.
From Yorkshire Tales. Third Series Amusing sketches of Yorkshire Life in the Yorkshire Dialect by John Hartley
Jimmy sat comfortably suppin' his stiffshackle an smokin' a bit o' bacca, an tried by all th' means in his power to wheedle th' owd woman into his way o' thinkin'.
From Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley by John Hartley
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