cigarette
English
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Alternative forms
- cigaret (US spelling, sometimes)
Etymology
Borrowed from French cigarette, from cigare, from Spanish cigarro + diminutive suffix -ette
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsɪ.ɡə.ɹɛt/, /sɪ.ɡəˈɹɛt/
Audio (US): (file) Audio (UK): (file) - Rhymes: -ɛt
- Hyphenation: cig‧a‧rette
Noun
cigarette (plural cigarettes)
- Tobacco or other substances, in a thin roll wrapped with paper, intended to be smoked.
- 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 4, in The Celebrity:
- 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.
- 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 7, in Crime out of Mind[1]:
- 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.
- 2008, Thomas A. Liuzzo, One Last Cigarette: Memoirs of a 5-pack-a-day Smoker!, AuthorHouse (→ISBN), page 20:
- Grandma has an occasional cigarette, as well as Uncle Jimmy and Aunt Julie, and our kids give them crap about it.
Synonyms
Related terms
- cancerette
- cancer stick
- cig
- ciggy
- rig (Canada)
- stick (Canada)
- coffin nail
- darb, durry (Sydney, Australia)
- dart, durben, smoke, rolly (Australia)
- death stick
- fag (UK)
- gaf (butcher’s slang)
- neen (Sydney Australian larrikins)
- straight, straighter
- tab
- smoke, stoag stoagie, boagie (US)
- square (US-slang)
- zig-zag (US-slang)
- See also Thesaurus:cigarette
Derived terms
Terms derived from cigarette
Descendants
- → Welsh: sigarét
Translations
cigarette
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Verb
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- Could someone cigarette me?
See also
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
cigarette f (plural cigarettes)
Synonyms
- clope (colloquial)
Descendants
Further reading
- “cigarette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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- en:Smoking
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- fr:Smoking