tobacconist

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a person who sells tobacco, cigarettes, cigars, pipes, and related goods

   The tobacconist recommended a milder pipe tobacco to the customer.

2. 2
   noun

   mainly British: a shop that sells tobacco and smoking supplies

   He stopped at the tobacconist to buy a box of matches.

Formed in English from tobacco + an intrusive -n- + -ist. The earliest use referred to someone who used tobacco, before the word settled on a dealer and, in British usage, the dealer's shop.

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