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tobaccoish en · ADJ

Etymology

From tobacco + -ish.

Meanings

1. Resembling or characteristic of tobacco.
   • And a too-sweet, tobaccoish residue lingered in Julian from his unchecked fantasies, and he laughed at himself (so like his father wrapping a fur stole around Billie Holiday’s shoulders), and he laughed at Cait O’Dwyer’s sorcery, and he wondered if, in her real life, she required a steady diet of recent heartbreak in order to manufacture fresh emotion for her consumers. 2009 April 12, Kate Christensen, “Always on My Mind”, in New York Times:

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