baccy

American  

[bak-ee] / ˈbæk i /

noun

• baccies
  plural

1. Older Use. tobacco.

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baccy British  

/ ˈbækɪ /

noun

1. an informal name for tobacco

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• baccies
  plural

Etymology

Origin of baccy

First recorded in 1825–35; shortening of tobacky (an informal U.S. regional term)

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

baccy

Marks is a profoundly agreeable fellow, crumpled of face, eloquent of pronouncement and unassuming in his enormous sloppy cardie, packet of rolling baccy escaping from his shirt pocket.

From The Guardian ● May 27, 2013

We were lying stern to the wind; 'sides it wasn't decent baccy like ours, but sort of Scorp stuff, so we knew it wasn't one of our fellows smoking.

From The Long Trick by Bartimeus

A pipe o' baccy 'neath a leafy tree, A recent mail from far across the sea, No one to worry for an hour or two, And veldt, indeed, were Paradise to me.

From A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition by P. T. Ross

"Well—that's one thing you can't beat—our baccy," he said to himself as they jolted round against the curb into the full glare of the Circus.

From The Man with the Double Heart by Muriel Hine

So all hands tumbled down below; Chips took a fill o’ baccy to leeward of the capstan, and the old man walked the weather-poop looking for a sign of hell-fire.

From Devil Stories An Anthology by Various