Baccy

This "law abiding majority" are nothing of the sort and the kind of people that quite happily download music and films from the internet, park on double yellows and buy cheap "baccy" from a man in a pub and then whinge about "why don't you go after the 'real' criminals". ❋ Unknown (2009)

"I light a 'baccy' by your permission, Mrs. Williams," and a courtly bow accompanied the words. ❋ John Williams Streeter (N/A)

Hindhaugh damped his spirits by saying, slowly, "Not too fast; that 'baccy's got to go overboard, my boy." ❋ Various (N/A)

Always an optimist, Dick easily outdid the immortal Micawber in his faith in something turning up just when things looked their blackest, and he had literally no thought for the morrow, until his hand, mechanically groping in his pocket for the wherewithal to fill his pipe, advised him of the fact that even his "baccy" was finished. ❋ Frederick Cornell (N/A)

'You might get me some "baccy,"' he said, thrusting the bill through the bars and grinning. ❋ Bannister Merwin (N/A)

Wonder of wonders, this curious people called "baccy" tabac! ❋ Unknown (N/A)

_Neegig_ and he became great friends; they had one thing in common, and that was a love for tobacco, and in the summer evenings after dinner the young white man and his grown companion would recline on rustic seats in the garden, and smoke pipe after pipe, the red man mixing his "baccy" with some savoury bark from his native land which he produced from the depths of his martin-skin tobacco-pouch. ❋ Edward Francis Wilson (N/A)

Some buttons and tobacco (Mr Whittle calls it "baccy"), ❋ Unknown (1907)

On a low stone wall we spread our handkerchiefs, and each in his handkerchief put all his worldly possessions with the exception of the ` bit o 'baccy' down his sock. ❋ Unknown (1903)

He had come as before for "baccy," forgetting that the weed was not sold on Sundays, and had been prevailed on to remain to the service. ❋ Unknown (1859)

It was vain for these disagreeable men of principle to urge that when his health began to give way he would not find life very pleasant, and then "baccy" would fail to relieve him. ❋ Unknown (1859)

A woman from west Cumbria told police she thought the £20,000 worth of cannabis found in a pink suitcase in her car was "baccy" for her father, a court heard. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He declined to elaborate as he stood outside his family's home in Wasilla, hawking 'baccy' n 'bubblegum at the family moose. ❋ Unknown (2009)

a very early instance of the colloquial trick of abbreviation familiar in later days in such forms as "baccy" and "bacca" and their compounds. ❋ George Latimer Apperson (1897)

"baccy" were gratuitously sported in the most magnificent manner. ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)

"Yes, and I'm going to buy some 'baccy' as he calls it, for old Uncle ❋ Martha Finley (1868)

I'd kep 'on my weskit, 'cause all my' baccy's there, and it would be a rael comfort to have a quid in the circumstances. " ❋ Francis B. Pearson (1859)

He won't be pretending to be a rancher, driving an old pickup with baccy juice staining the door and clearing brush if there's a camera within range. ❋ Unknown (2009)

You must be smoking some serious wacky-baccy if you think that your resolution offers much in the way of ideological wiggle room for Republicans. ❋ Unknown (2009)