cigarette
verbEtymology Borrowed from French cigarette, from cigare, from Spanish cigarro + diminutive suffix -ette. By surface analysis, cigar + -ette.
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cigarette
nounUS, UK /ˈsɪɡəɹɛt/ · AU /ˈsɪɡəɹet/
Etymology Borrowed from French cigarette, from cigare, from Spanish cigarro + diminutive suffix -ette. By surface analysis, cigar + -ette.
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A small cigar consisting of tobacco or another substance, wrapped up in a thin roll with paper, intended for smoking.
- No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or otherwise his man would be there with a message to say that his master would shortly join me if I would kindly wait.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 46:
- He rose to light my cigarette, then sank back into his wicker chair contentedly. The tea was weak, but not cold, thanks to the hot-plate.1956, Delano Ames, chapter 7, in Crime out of Mind:
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- Tobacconist: Right. I want to try you on a course of these: one twenty times a day. Have you taken them before? Patient: Um, what is it? Tobacconist: It's a simple nicotinal arsenous monoxid preparation taken bronchially as an infumation. Patient: Infumation? Tobacconist: Yes, you just light the end and breathe it. Patient: What, like cigarettes? Tobacconist: You know them then. Actually, it's a bit hard to admit but they're basically an herbal remedy... A leaf originally from the Americas, I believe, called tobacco. Patient: But medicated? Tobacconist: Medicated? No. Patient: These are ordinary cigarettes? Tobacconist: That's right. Patient: But they're terribly bad for you, aren't they? Tobacconist: I hardly think I would be prescribing them if they were bad for you. Patient: Twenty a day? Tobacconist: Yes, ideally moving on to about thirty or forty.1989 January 27, Stephen Fry et al., “Doctor Tobacco”, in A Bit of Fry and Laurie, Season 1, Episode 3:
- Grandma has an occasional cigarette, as well as Uncle Jimmy and Aunt Julie, and our kids give them crap about it.2008, Thomas A. Liuzzo, One Last Cigarette: Memoirs of a 5-pack-a-day Smoker!, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 20:
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47 terms
bine, blem, bogie, boagie, butt, cancerette, cancer stick, boon, cig, ciggy, coffin nail, cowboy killer, darb, dart, death stick, durben, durrie, durry, fag, gaf, gasper, gwaai, lung dart, neen, oily rag, paper cigar, rig, rolly, quirly, scag, skyf, snout, smoke, square, stick, stinky stick, stoge, stoag, stogie, stoagie, straight, straighter, tab, toby rib, twiff, vogue, zig-zag- Derived terms
35 terms
anticigarette, cancerette, cigalike, cigarette beetle, cigarette-boat, cigarette boat, cigarette burn, cigarette camp, cigarette card, cigarette case, cigarette deck, cigarette end, cigarette filter, cigarette girl, cigarette-holder, cigarette holder, cigaretteless, cigarette lighter, cigarettelike, cigarette machine, cigarette pants, cigarette paper, cigarette pastry, cigarettism, cigarettist, cigaretty, e-cigarette, electronic cigarette, jazz cigarette, left-handed cigarette, menthol cigarette, niggerette, noncigarette, Russian cigarette, straight cigarette- Hyponyms
- electronic cigarette, filter tip, kretek, marijuana cigarette, menthol cigarette, nonfilter, slim, unfilter, Camel, Marlboro, Woodbine, roll up, roll-up, rollup, rollie, roll-your-own
- Meronyms
- marijuana, hot top/stick, nicotine, rolling paper, tobacco