tobaccoとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• tabacco (廃れた用法)

語源

Attested since 1588, borrowed from Spanish tabaco. The Spanish word could be from Arabic طُبَّاق‎ (ṭubbāq, “Dittrichia viscosa”) or from a Caribbean language such as Galibi Carib or Taíno or multiple of them, from a word meaning "roll of tobacco leaves"^[1] or "a pipe for smoking tobacco," such as tabago (“tube for inhaling smoke または powdered intoxicating plants”).^[2]

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /təˈbæk.əʊ/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /təˈbæk.oʊ/
• 韻: -ækəʊ

名詞

tobacco (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 tobaccos または tobaccoes)

1. (uncountable) Any plant of the genus Nicotiana.
2. (uncountable) Leaves of Nicotiana tabacum and some other species cultivated and harvested to make cigarettes, cigars, snuff, for smoking in pipes or for chewing.
   • 2013 September 7, “Unlucky strike”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8852:

     Tobacco-settlement bonds are a tribute both to the inventiveness of bankers and the childlike impatience of politicians.

3. (countable) A variety of tobacco.

   Tobaccos from the Connecticut Valley were used for wrapping cigars.

派生語

• occabot (back スラング)
• tree tobacco (Nicotiana glauca)

動詞

tobacco (三人称単数 現在形 tobaccos, 現在分詞 tobaccoing, 過去形および過去分詞形 tobaccoed)

1. (intransitive) To indulge in tobacco; to smoke.
2. (transitive) To treat with tobacco.
   • 1918, Tropical Diseases Bulletin (volume 12, page 412)

     The most satisfactory method of tobaccoing houses is that of stitching the leaves on to a piece of cloth like a strip of matting, which is then laid on the floor. Powdered tobacco should be introduced into rat holes, which can then be firmly closed up with bricks and mortar. Experiments carried out in the City of Hyderabad seem to have been very satisfactory.

参考

• baccy, backy
• chop chop
• smoke

参照

アナグラム

• occabot