rappee

noun

1. A dark, coarse, strongly flavoured snuff.

   archaic, countable, historical, uncountable

   Thou art like my rappee here, [takes out his box.] a moſt ridiculous ſuperfluity, but a pinch of thee novv and then is a moſt delicious treat.

Where it comes from

From French (tabac) râpé (“grated (tobacco)”), past participle of râper (“to grate”), from Old French rasper "to scrape"; of Germanic origin.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry rappee (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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