Dip - not just for guys anymore.

[gary]

Ladies, you can git yore tabaccy and spit with the best o' 'em. There's historical precedents too.

DAILY CONSTITUTIONALIST [AUGUSTA, GA], April 22, 1864, p. 3, c. 3
Suggestion.—If some of the female ladies who travel to and fro on the Georgia railroad are determined to “chaw” tobacco anyhow, it is to be hoped that they will do so on the sly. For decency’s sake, if naught else, ye chewers, grant this request. The writer hereof has frequent occasion to travel on this line of locomotion, (in the ladies’ car,) and he does not relish the idea of being spit all over by female masticators of the nauseous weed. Snuff-dipping is bad enough, in all conscience; but from a woman spitting tobacco juice—ministers and grace, defend us!—Reveille.

Forgot which Corn-fed book I read it in, but this soldier sees a pretty girl and as a means of striking up a conversation, offers her a newspaper. She declines, politely explaining that she is illiterate. Then, much to his surprise, she spits out a wad of juice! The soldier was shocked.

[southern_belle1861]

Elisha Stockwell Jr. Sees the Civil War has a story where a young girl about 12 and an older lady come into camp. He is standing beside the girl and takes out a chew, and she asks him "Can I have some?". Needless to say, this yankee soldier was not use to women taking part in a "mans" habit