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Definition of Maccaboy
1. n. A kind of snuff.
Definition of Maccaboy
1. Noun. A type of rose-scented snuff. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Maccaboy
1. a type of snuff [n -BOYS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Maccaboy
Literary usage of Maccaboy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of Committees by United States Congress. Senate (1858)
"The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the memorial of James maccaboy,
report: This memorialist, whilst engaged in the faithful discharge of his duty ..."
2. The Rebelliad; Or, Terrible Transactions at the Seat of the Muses: A Poem in by Augustus Peirce (1842)
"To throw off maccaboy and phlegm: Then, with slow melancholy, sung How for a
witch her ma' was hung ; And with a doleful aspect blunder'd Through half a ..."
3. The world's wit and humor: an encyclopedia of the classic wit and humor of by Lionel Strachey (1906)
"... maccaboy—twice as large, with twice as fierce an action. "I don't know what
it is to bury children, nor to lose a husband; I s'pose I don't; ..."
4. The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries by John Austin Stevens, Benjamin Franklin DeCosta, Martha Joanna Lamb, Henry Phelps Johnston, Nathan Gilbert Pond, William Abbatt (1887)
"... to certain favored ones of the congregation as they passed him in the vestibule,
whom he well knew would enjoy a pinch of his favorite maccaboy. ..."
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