单词 | negrohead tobacco |
释义 | > as lemmasnegrohead tobacco 3. More fully negrohead tobacco. A strong dark plug tobacco. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > [noun] > types of plug tobacco negrohead1809 niggerhead1843 navy plug1867 navy1872 1809 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. II. vi. ii. 88 He..thrust a prodigious quid of negro head tobacco into his left cheek. 1839 ‘J. Fume’ Paper on Tobacco 116 A few iron nerved smokers occasionally take a pipe of negrohead. 1861 C. Dickens Great Expectations III. i. 10 A handful of loose tobacco of the kind that is called Negro-head. 1892 W. Pike Barren Ground N. Canada 29 The Hudson's Bay negrohead tobacco is..much improved, as well as economized, by a mixture with either of these substances. 1928 ‘Brent of Bin Bin’ Up Country (1966) ii. 16 The Stantons and Saunders had dealt peaceably with the blacks, buying the land for some gaily coloured shirts, tomahawks, negro head and flour. 1950 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. A. 113 494 Tobacco manufactured in bond is sometimes termed ‘cavendish’ or ‘negrohead’. 1999 I. Tyrrell Deadly Enemies i. i. 12 Nailrod was a type of rolled tobacco, Shag a coarse cut, Negrohead a twist, and Honey Dew a pipe tobacco sweetened with molasses. < as lemmas |
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