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单词 macouba
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macouban.

Brit. /ˈmakuːbɑː/, U.S. /ˈmækubɑ/
Forms:

α. 1700s macabao, 1700s macauba, 1800s maccouba, 1800s maccubau, 1800s mackabaw, 1800s– macabaa (Scottish), 1800s– macabaw, 1800s– maccaba, 1800s– maccabaw, 1800s– macouba.

β. 1800s macaboy, 1800s maccoboy, 1800s– maccaboy Brit. /ˈmakəbɔɪ/, U.S. /ˈmækəbɔɪ/.

Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Macouba.
Etymology: < Macouba, the name of a tobacco-growing district in northern Martinique. In the 18th cent. the a of the third syllable was identified (as often in loanwords) with English aw /ɔː/; the -oy /ɔɪ/ of the β. forms appears to have developed from this. Compare French macouba (1803; 1765 (tabac de) Macouba).
a. A kind of snuff, usually scented with attar of roses.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > snuff > [noun] > types of
high-dried1681
Spanish1681
roderigo1692
bergamot1701
musty1709
myrtle1715
Portuguesea1721
rappee?1726
Scotch1739
macoubac1740
blackguard1782
Irish1806
Lundyfoot1811
prince's mixture1813
cephalic1828
taddy1869
c1740 Wimble's List of Snuffs in F. W. Fairholt Tobacco (1859) v. 269 Macabao.
1799 Hull Advertiser 27 July 4/4 You are famous..For having the best Macauba [rhyme draw].
a1823 G. Wushart in J. Mactaggart Sc. Gallovidian Encycl. (1824) 223 Ye maun bring me a teat o' this same Macabaa.
1823 J. Badcock Domest. Amusem. 99 The snuff of Martinico, celebrated under the term ‘Macouba’.
1849 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis II. ii. 14 [He] pocketted his snuff-box, not desirous that Madame Brack's dubious fingers should plunge too frequently into his Mackabaw.
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Maccoboy, Maccubau, a kind of snuff.
1893 R. L. Stevenson Catriona xix. 218 Him I found already at his desk and already bedabbled with maccabaw.
1896 E. Marriage tr. H. de Balzac Old Goriot 21 His snuff-box is always likely to be filled with maccaboy.
1952 V. Wilkins King Reluctant i. i. 22 A modest pinch of maccabaw from a tortoise-shell snuff-box.
1984 E. Voges Tobacco Encycl. i. 192 Macouba, eighteenth-century type of snuff which was made in Seville and Lisbon from tobaccos from Spanish colonies in America.
b. More fully macouba snuff.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > snuff > [noun]
sneeze1632
sneezing1648
smutchin1650
snush1671
snuff1683
nose gunpowder1706
pulvil1706
sneeshing1714
macouba1827
dip1853
snoose1912
snous1962
1827 Hallowell (Maine) Gaz. 20 June 4/3 (advt.) B. Wales has just received..Lorillard's Macaboy snuff.
1854 T. H. Benton Thirty Years' View I. 420/2 He went up to Mr. Clay, and asked him for a pinch of his fine maccoboy snuff.
1934 E. Pound Eleven New Cantos xxxvii. 32 If you will give me A pinch of your excellent Maccaboy snuff.
1966 T. H. Raddall Hangman's Beach ii. xii. 176 When the English went..to capture Martinique..they brought back a lot of booty, including the good macouba snuff that is made there.
1992 J. Purdy Out with Stars 24 An elegantly wrapped box of Maccaboy Snuff with Hugh Medairy's name on it in blazing letters also arrived.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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