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nicotinist en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree French Nicot Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos Proto-Italic *-īnos Latin -īnus French -in French -e French -ine French nicotinebor. English nicotine Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English nicotinist From nicotine + -ist.

Meanings

1. (obsolete, rare) One who is addicted to nicotine, the alkaloid found in tobacco.
   • Indeed, it seems very probable that in many cases smoking is done, not because of the real enjoyment which comes from the practice, but because it has become a habit which the nicotinist cannot break himself of. 1914, “Our Tobacco: Its Cost”, in The Unpopular Review, volume 1, page 159:
   • Nicotinists. Smokers, it is said, are invariably polite to each other, wheresoever they be–on the penny steamboat, the two-penny tramcar, the three-penny bus, and elsewhere. 1879 July 14, The North Middlesex Magazine, page 15:
   • That I usually buy and sow two to ten times as many kinds and plants as I can at all find room for is no sort of fault or harm, for I can give away plants even more happily than the nicotinist gives away a cigar, and with as much heartwarming thankfulness coming my way. 1915, John Horace McFarland, My Growing Garden, page 26:

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