"minocky dust"

Jonathan Lighter wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM
Mon Aug 18 15:07:03 UTC 2008


What the heck is this?  Am not even sure how it's pronounced.
 
1930 "Anon." [John Jacob Niles?] _One Woman's War_ (N.Y.: Macauley) 40: It was a French army cigarette and the nearest thing to smoking minocky dust I have ever tackled.
 
JL




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