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English
Pronunciation
Noun
smutchin (uncountable)
- (obsolete) snuff
1655, James Howell, “to Henry Hopkins, Esq.”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. , 3rd edition, volume (please specify the page), London: Humphrey Mosley, , →OCLC:The Spaniards and Irish take it [tobacco] most in Powder or Smutchin, and it mightily refreshes the Brain, and I believe there's as much taken this Way in Ireland as there is in Pipes in England
References
“smutchin”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.