baccy - Glite Dictionary

Examples

I can't believe you still smoke wacky baccy.

Finding Your Feet (2017)
- Want some baccy?

Gods and Generals (2003)
Come on, get your baccy.

Gods and Generals (2003)
Have you bought me any 'baccy?"

Fiction book (1992)
The baccy plants

Blog text (20)
- 'Baccy, man.

The Sandlot (1993)
In Fosterville you can buy a half-ounce of baccy, here they only sell you quarter-ounces at a time.

Green Street Hooligans 2 (2009)
"There's naught but baccy and vanilla aboard this hulk."

Pirates (1986)
He rolled a cigarette with his favorite baccy before heading outside.
In many places, you can easily find baccy for sale at convenience stores.

Synonyms

tobacco

vsbaccy

871 1.4

Dried processed leaves people smoke or chew to get nicotine

has identical meaning but uses a different word form

burley

vsbaccy

Specialized

1 8.7

A light tobacco leaf dried in air and used to make cigarettes

is the general product category rather than a specific variety

Surface Forms

baccy singular

baccies plural

Morphology

baccy = tobacco (transparent) = bacc + y

Informal clipped form of 'tobacco' with the colloquial suffix '-y'; the meaning is directly recoverable from 'tobacco'.

Etymology

The word baccy is an informal short form of tobacco, a word that came into English from the Caribbean and once meant the 'smoking plant'. So baccy simply means the dried tobacco leaves people roll or smoke.