Sot-weed

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    tobacco archaic, countable, uncountable

    "These Sot-weed Planters Crowd the Shoar [more recent explanatory foot-note] Sot-Weed, i. e. the sot making or inebriating weed; a name for tobacco, used at that time. A Sot-weed Factor, was a tobacco agent or supercargo."

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"These Sot-weed Planters Crowd the Shoar [more recent explanatory foot-note] Sot-Weed, i. e. the sot making or inebriating weed; a name for tobacco, used at that time. A Sot-weed Factor, was a tobacco agent or supercargo."

Etymology

From sot (“a stupified, stupid, inebriated, addicted, or infatuated person”), and weed.

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