snuff-dipping

British  

noun

1. the practice of absorbing nicotine by holding in one's mouth, between the cheek and the gum, a small amount of tobacco, either loose or enclosed in a sachet

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Example Sentences

But Washington Phillips—a stocky, snuff-dipping gospel singer from East Texas, who recorded eighteen songs for Columbia Records between 1927 and 1929—is an uncommonly captivating cipher.

From The New Yorker

Reasons: strict no-smoking rules in war plants and much higher incomes in the snuff-dipping Deep South.

From Time Magazine Archive

There were snuff-dipping, mackinawed men from the forests; ruddy, overalled farmers of sturdy Swiss stock; pale businessmen from the little towns.

From Time Magazine Archive

Having followed our sable friends from grief to indignation, and from indignation to the charming amusement of snuff-dipping, we will enter the house and make acquaintance with its master.

From Project Gutenberg

"No, but his right hand man Seward did—" "Sly old snuff-dipping hypocrite—" "Anyhow, he's the brains of his party."

From Project Gutenberg