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kessu.

Homemade/homegrown smoking tobacco (often of low quality) produced from Nicotiana rustica, a species of the tobacco plant.

5 characters2 syllables approx.Suomi language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈkesːu/[ˈk̟e̞s̠ːu]
  1. Homemade/homegrown smoking tobacco (often of low quality) produced from Nicotiana rustica, a species of the tobacco plant.

  2. cigarette

    colloquial
Where this word comes from

Unknown. Possibly related to dialectal kessu (“something of poor quality; wretch, poor thing”), which may itself be related to kesseli.

noun/ˈkesːu/[ˈk̟e̞s̠ːu]
  1. sarge (sergeant)

    slang
Where this word comes from

Clipping of kersantti + -u, also influenced by kessu (etymology 1).

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