Meaning

noun a retail dealer in tobacco and tobacco-related articles

noun a shop that sells pipes and pipe tobacco and cigars and cigarettes

originEtymology tree English tobacco English -n- Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English tobacconist From tobacco + -n- + -ist.

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