cigarette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪ.ɡə.ɹɛt/
ipa: /sɪ.ɡəˈɹɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: cigarettes
form: cigaret
Etymology: Etymology tree
Spanish cigarrobor.
French cigare
French -ette
French cigarettebor.
English cigarette
Borrowed from French cigarette, from cigare, from Spanish cigarro + diminutive suffix -ette.
Senses: examples: text: 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.
ref: 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:
text: 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.
ref: 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 7, in Crime out of Mind:
text: 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.
ref: 1989 January 27, Stephen Fry et al., “Doctor Tobacco”, in A Bit of Fry and Laurie, Season 1, Episode 3:
text: Grandma has an occasional cigarette, as well as Uncle Jimmy and Aunt Julie, and our kids give them crap about it.
ref: 2008, Thomas A. Liuzzo, One Last Cigarette: Memoirs of a 5-pack-a-day Smoker!, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 20:
glosses: A small cigar consisting of tobacco or another substance, wrapped up in a thin roll with paper, intended for smoking.
Synonyms: word: bine
word: blem
word: bogie
word: boagie
word: butt
word: cancerette
word: cancer stick
word: cig
word: cigaret
word: cigarette
word: ciggy
word: coffin nail
word: cowboy killer
word: darb
word: dart
word: death stick
word: durben
word: durrie
word: durry
word: fag
word: gaf
word: gasper
word: gwaai
word: lung dart
word: neen
word: oily rag
word: paper cigar
word: rig
word: rolly
word: quirly
word: scag
word: skyf
word: snout
word: smoke
word: square
word: stick
word: stinky stick
word: stoge
word: stoag
word: stogie
word: stoagie
word: straight
word: straighter
word: tab
word: toby rib
word: twiff
word: vogue
word: zig-zag
Hyponyms: word: electronic cigarette
word: filter tip
word: kretek
word: marijuana cigarette
word: menthol cigarette
word: nonfilter
word: slim
word: unfilter
word: Camel
word: Marlboro
word: Woodbine
word: roll up
word: roll-up
word: rollup
word: rollie
word: roll-your-own
Meronyms: word: marijuana
word: hot top/stick
word: nicotine
word: rolling paper
word: tobacco
Derived terms: word: anticigarette
word: cancerette
word: cigalike
word: cigarette beetle
word: cigarette-boat
word: cigarette boat
word: cigarette burn
word: cigarette camp
word: cigarette card
word: cigarette case
word: cigarette deck
word: cigarette end
word: cigarette filter
word: cigarette girl
word: cigarette holder
word: cigarette-holder
word: cigaretteless
word: cigarette lighter
word: cigarettelike
word: cigarette machine
word: cigarette pants
word: cigarette paper
word: cigarette pastry
word: cigarettism
word: cigarettist
word: cigaretty
alt: e-cigarette
word: electronic cigarette
word: jazz cigarette
word: left-handed cigarette
word: menthol cigarette
word: niggerette
word: noncigarette
word: Russian cigarette
word: straight cigarette
Related terms: word: cigar
word: cigarillo
word: cheroot
word: :Category:Smoking