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单词 saccacommis
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saccacommisn.

Brit. /ˌsakəˈkəʊmi/, U.S. /ˌsækəˈkoʊmi/
Forms:

α. 1700s 1900s sagakomi (rare), 1900s– sagackhomi.

β. 1800s sacacommé, 1800s saccacomi, 1800s saccacommi, 1800s sacka comah, 1800s sackacome, 1800s sackacomey, 1800s sackacomie, 1800s sackacomma, 1800s sackey commy, 1800s sakkakomi, 1800s– sakakomi (now rare), 1900s sackagoming.

γ. 1700s– sac à commis, 1800s sac a commis, 1800s sackay commis, 1800s– saccacomis, 1800s– saccacommis, 1900s sacacomis.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French saccacomi.
Etymology: < North American French saccacomi, †sagakomi, †sac à commis bearberry leaves used for smoking (1702 in the passage translated in quot. 1703), the plant itself (1722) < Ojibwa (in an early variety) sakaakkomin bearberry.The α. forms reflect consonant voicing in Ojibwa, which was not yet complete at the time of borrowing. The γ. forms reflect French †sac à commis , a folk-etymological (perhaps originally punning) reinterpretation of the loanword as showing the phrase sac à commis , lit. ‘clerk's bag’ (compare quot. 1823 and the French forms cited at sac n.2 and commis n.). In the form sagackhomi ultimately after Swedish †sagackhomi (mid 18th cent. in the works of P. Kalm, which were translated into several European languages).
North American. Now historical and rare.
The plant bearberry, Arctostaphylos uva-ursi. Also: the leaves of this plant used for smoking with, or as a substitute for, tobacco. Cf. kinnikinnick n. 2.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > [noun] > substitutes for tobacco
tobacco-docks1599
poke1634
saccacommis1703
kinnikinnick1792
sumac1813
rabbit tobacco1880
pipeweed1896
the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > berry-bush or -tree > [noun] > bearberry bush
bearberry1677
saccacommis1703
uva ursi1753
manzanita1846
smoking weed1859
1703 tr. L. de Lahontan New Voy. N.-Amer. II. 53 They are forc'd to buy up Brasil Tobaco, which they mix with a certain Leaf..call'd Sagakomi [Fr. Sagakomi].
1823 J. Franklin Narr. Journey Shores Polar Sea 741 Jackashey-puck..has received the name of Sac à commis, from the trading clerks carrying it in their smoking bags.
1836 G. Back Narr. Arctic Land Exped. ix. 257 We passed many sandhills, variegated by the..plant, called..by the traders ‘sac à commis’.
1837 Trans. Lit. & Hist. Soc. Quebec 3 91 Saccacommi [is] frequently used to smoke in lieu of tobacco, by the traders engaged in the fur countries.
1890 L. R. Masson Les Bourgeois de la Compagnie du Nord-Ouest II. 102 Graine d'ours, Bear berry, also called sac à commis, creeping plant which is smoked, and which the clerks put in their sacs.
1910 F. W. Hodge Handbk. Amer. Indians II. 407/2 Sagakomi. The name of a certain smoking mixture, or substitute for tobacco, applied also to the bearberry bush..or other shrubs the leaves and bark of which are used for the same purpose.
2003 S. H. Munger Common to this Country 62 The explorers learned that the Indians also ate bearberries and that mixing saccacommis with their tobacco, which was in short supply, made a pleasant smoke.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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