subs. (colloquial).—Tobacco. Fr. perlot (from perle). Also BACCO, BACCY, BACKER, and BACKEY.
1833. MARRYAT, Peter Simple, I. ii. You must larn to chaw BACCY.
1860. All the Year Round, 57. 161. His wife has found his BACCO-box.
1861. JAMES CONWAY, Forays Among Salmon and Deer, 228. I lay on an Affghan goat-rug … with a pipe filled with good ‘BACCY’ in my mouth.
1863. H. KINGSLEY, Austin Elliot, xxi. Bits of BACKER pipe.
