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sot-weed

noun

Etymology

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

Definitions

  1. tobacco

    • 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.
    • The Sot-Weed Factor [title]
    • the effects of smoking sotweed... Depressions would produce modest efforts to diversify the economy but as soon as tobacco prices rose again, planters returned to “sotweed making”.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for sot-weed. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA