Nicotinist

Quick meaning: Nicotinist is a noun meaning (obsolete, rare) One who is addicted to nicotine, the alkaloid found in tobacco.

Meaning

(obsolete, rare) One who is addicted to nicotine, the alkaloid found in tobacco.

Example Sentences

Nicotinists. Smokers, it is said, are invariably polite to each other, wheresoever they be–on the penny steamboat, the two-penny tramcar, the three-penny bus, and elsewhere.

Indeed, it seems very probable that in many cases smoking is done, not because of the real enjoyment which comes from the practice, but because it has become a habit which the nicotinist cannot break himself of.

That I usually buy and sow two to ten times as many kinds and plants as I can at all find room for is no sort of fault or harm, for I can give away plants even more happily than the nicotinist gives away a cigar, and with as much heartwarming thankfulness coming my way.

Word Forms

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