cigar
English edit
Etymology edit
From Spanish cigarro, of uncertain origin; see that entry for more.
Pronunciation edit
- (General American) IPA(key): /sɪˈɡɑɹ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /sɪˈɡɑː(ɹ)/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
Noun edit
cigar (plural cigars)
- A cylinder of tobacco rolled and wrapped with an outer covering of tobacco leaves, intended to be smoked.
- 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter III, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
- Long after his cigar burnt bitter, he sat with eyes fixed on the blaze. When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped ; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs and ball-gown kneeling on the hearth […].
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 5, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
- A waiter brought his aperitif, which was a small scotch and soda, and as he sipped it gratefully he sighed. ¶ ‘Civilized,’ he said to Mr. Campion. ‘Humanizing.’ […] ‘Cigars and summer days and women in big hats with swansdown face-powder, that's what it reminds me of.’
- (slang) The penis. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
Synonyms edit
Derived terms edit
- Bondi cigar
- cigar beetle
- cigar box
- cigar box guitar
- cigar box guitarist
- cigar-chomping
- cigar cutter
- cigarless
- cigar lighter
- cigarlike
- cigarmaker
- cigarmaking
- cigar smoke
- cigar-smoke
- cigar store Indian
- close, but no cigar
- close but no cigar
- e-cigar
- electronic cigar
- newspaper cigar
- paper cigar
- pink cigar
- sometimes a cigar is just a cigar
Descendants edit
Descendants
Translations edit
tobacco product
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See also edit
Anagrams edit
Catalan edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Originally a learned modification of cigarro in order to avoid the Spanish-appearing termination -arro.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cigar m (plural cigars)
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “cigar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “cigar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Danish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cigar c (singular definite cigaren, plural indefinite cigarer)
Inflection edit
Declension of cigar
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | cigar | cigaren | cigarer | cigarerne |
genitive | cigars | cigarens | cigarers | cigarernes |