tobacco juice
1
8.8
- noun
- /təˈbækoʊ dʒuːs/
:
jugo de tabaco
- After chewing tobacco, he would often have to spit out the brown tobacco juice.
- tobacco juice spit
- stream of tobacco juice
- brown tobacco juice
Examples
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Kelly spat a brown stream of tobacco juice onto the ground.
Fiction book (1992) -
One of them expelled a stream of brown tobacco juice across the lawn in front of Rhett's fine riding boots.
Fiction book (1991) -
The teeth were covered with brown tobacco juice.
Fiction book (1992) -
The silence is broken as Red spits tobacco juice into an empty Coke bottle.
Fiction book (1993) -
"Don't worry, just give it a couple of years," he laughed, a bit of tobacco juice dribbling down his chin.
Fiction book (1995) -
Abe turned his head away and spat out a cheekful of black tobacco juice.
Fiction book (1998) -
"Harding turned his head to one side and spat out a mouthful of black tobacco juice.
Fiction book (1998) -
The man's pale face split into a laugh, and Anna saw, or thought she saw, streaks of tobacco juice on his teeth.
Fiction book (2001) -
"You've never heard of the Hash Monster?" He spat brown tobacco juice into a plastic bottle.
Academic text (2010) -
And his breath—it smelled of tobacco juice, wet, rank, sickish, rotted.
Fiction book (1997)
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase combines 'tobacco' and 'juice' so a B1 learner would reasonably infer it refers to a liquid associated with tobacco. However, the specific sense—saliva stained by chewing tobacco/snuff rather than, say, a plant extract or beverage—is a pragmatic extension that is not fully predictable from the constituents alone.
Etymology
Tobacco juice comes from a simple, literal image. When people chew tobacco, their 'saliva' turns brown and they often 'spit' a dark liquid that looks like juice, so the phrase means that stained 'saliva'.