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tobacconist|təˈbækənɪst|
Also 6 tabbacconist, 7 tabaccanist, -onist, tobackonist, -baconist, -bacchonist, -bacconiste.
[f. tobacco + -ist, with inserted -n-, perh. suggested by such words as Platonist, with etymological n.]
†1. A person addicted to the use of tobacco; esp. a habitual tobacco-smoker. Obs.
1599B. Jonson Ev. Man out of Hum. iii. i, It pleases the world (as I am her excellent Tabacconist) to giue me the style of Signior Whiffe. 1615H. Crooke Body of Man 587 We see that cunning Tobacconistes..can driue the smoake out of their mouthes thorough their eare. 1686Plot Staffordsh. 302 Who though a great Tobacconist, never spits in the smoking of ten pipes together. a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Smoker, a Tobacconist. 1757E. Griffith Lett. Henry & Frances (1767) II. 280 As phlegmatic as a Dutch tobacconist.
2. A seller of or dealer in tobacco; also, a manufacturer of tobacco.
1657W. Rand tr. Gassendi's Life Peiresc vi. 195 That [the books] might..escape the danger of the Tobacconist and Grocer. 1700T. Brown Amusem. Ser. & Com. viii. 112 In the Tobacconist's Shops Men were sneezing and spawling. 1840Dickens Old C. Shop vii, Mr. Richard Swiveller's apartments were..over a tobacconist's shop.
Hence tobaccoˈnistical a., belonging to or characteristic of a tobacconist. Also toˈbacconize v., (a) intr. to smoke tobacco; (b) trans. to impregnate with tobacco-smoke.
1839New Monthly Mag. LVII. 118 Submitting this *tobacconistical list to the snuff-taking public.
1876Blackmore Cripps III. xiii. 204 In picturesque attitudes of *tobacconizing. 1884American VIII. 73 The necessity of enduring a tobacconized atmosphere. |