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1853. This horrible practice, called in lower Virginia and North Carolina dipping, is of respectable standing.—Putnam’s Mag., i. 142/1 (Feb.).
1857. She … was suspected of a mysterious habit, denominated, in Southern parlance “dipping”—in other words, of chewing snuff—(we can depose to the fact of her smelling like a spittoon, as we sat beside her at dinner).—T. B. Gunn, ‘New York Boarding-houses,’ p. 221.
