cigarn.
/sᵻˈɡɑː/, U.S. /səˈɡɑr/ a. A compact roll of tobacco-leaves for smoking, one end being taken in the mouth while the other is lit.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > articles or materials used in smoking > [noun] > thing which may be smoked > cigar or cheroot > cigar
cigar1735
segara1785
puro1841
wrapper1849
rope1899
seegar1935
1735 J. Cockburn Journey over Land 139 These Gentlemen [3 Friars at Nicaragua] gave us some Seegars to smoke..These are Leaves of Tobacco rolled up in such Manner that they serve both for a Pipe and Tobacco itself..they know no other way [of smoking] here, for there is no such Thing as a Tobacco-Pipe throughout New Spain, etc.
1774 G. Colman Man of Business iv. 55 Many a sagar have little Goldy and I smoaked together.
1777 W. Dalrymple Trav. Spain & Portugal xvii The Marquis took out of his pocket a little bit of tobacco, rolled it up in a piece of paper, making a cigar of it.
1781 T. Pennant Tour in Wales (1783) II. 29 Pipes were not then invented, so they used the twisted leaves, or segars.
1823 Ld. Byron Island ii. xix. 41 Give me a cigar.
1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple (ed. 2) I. xvii. 251 I called with my handkerchief full of segars for the father.
1869 J. Ruskin Queen of Air 91 note It is not easy to estimate the demoralizing effect on the youth of Europe of the cigar.
b. The pod of the catalpa tree; the Indian bean. U.S.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > [noun] > catalpa > pod of
cigar1876
1876 Field & Forest 2 51 I verily believe that some boys..took their first lessons, in smoking, by using the ‘beans’ or ‘cigars’ of the Catalpa.
c. The brown colour of a cigar.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > brown or brownness > [noun] > other browns
umberc1568
Spanish brown1660
earth colour1688
raw umber1702
iron brown1714
clove-brown1794
raw sienna1797
wood-brown1805
moorit1809
coffee1815
oak1815
burnt almond1850
Vandyke brown1850
Turk's head1853
catechu brown1860
oak brown1860
mummy brown1861
walnut-brown1865
Havana1873
havana brown1875
wax-brown1887
box1889
nutria1897
caramel1909
wallflower brown1913
cigar1923
desert-brown1923
sunburn1923
tobacco1923
maple1926
butterscotch1927
walnut1934
snuff1951
mink1955
toffee1960
sludge1962
earth-tone1973
1923 Daily Mail 16 Apr. 1 Grey, Mole, Cigar, Champagne, Light Tan.
1923 Daily Mail 15 Oct. 15/4 This season there is a vogue for brown fur, and ermine, caracul, and squirrel are dyed to provide lovely shades of cigar, dead gold or mahogany.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
a.
cigar-box n.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > articles or materials used in smoking > [noun] > receptacles for cigars or cigarettes
cigar-box1836
cigar-case1844
cigarette-case1883
humidor1903
humidistat1909
1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. I. 321 Cigars..are..two a penny, in a regular authentic cigar box.
1878 B. F. Taylor Between Gates 252 We have been circling about that cigar~box of a town.
1888 R. Kipling Departm. Ditties (1890, ed. 4) 105 Open the old cigar-box.
1907 A. L. Winton tr. Hanausek Microsc. Techn. Prod. 219 Cedrela odorata L., Spanish Cedar, Cigar~box Wood.
cigar-cabinet n.
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1903 A. Bennett Leonora ii. 50 A cigar-cabinet on the sideboard.
cigar-case n.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > articles or materials used in smoking > [noun] > receptacles for cigars or cigarettes
cigar-box1836
cigar-case1844
cigarette-case1883
humidor1903
humidistat1909
1844 C. F. Mersch tr. ‘C. Sealsfield’ Cabin Bk. 15 I had my cigar case, and a small roll of Virginia dulcissimus.
1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre II. ix. 244 Unfortunately I have neither my cigar-case, nor my snuff-box.
a1863 W. M. Thackeray Fitz-Boodle Papers (1887) 16 I..can at any rate take my cigar-case out after dinner at Blackwall.
1957 ‘B. Buckingham’ Boiled Alive xxiv. 176 Don Pancho reached for his crocodile cigar case.
cigar-cutter n.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > articles or materials used in smoking > [noun] > thing which may be smoked > cigarette > cutter or holder
mouthpiece1673
cigar-cutter1859
cigar-holder1871
tobacco-cutter1877
cigarette-holder1879
1859 F. W. Fairholt Tobacco iv. 224 Another simple little implement, to act as cigar-cutter and holder.
1905 Daily Chron. 27 Dec. 4/5 I deprecate the use of the cigar-cutter, preferring the nice conduct of a penknife.
1936 ‘N. Blake’ Thou Shell of Death i. 7 Chromium-plated cigar-cutters.
cigar-end n.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > articles or materials used in smoking > [noun] > thing which may be smoked > cigar or cigarette > butt or end of
doup1710
butt end1827
old soldier1834
butt1847
stub1855
cigar-end1870
stub-end1875
cigarette-end1889
cigar-butt1891
snipe1891
fag end1892
fag1897
bumper1899
scag1915
cigarette-butt1923
dout1928
dog-end1934
roach1939
stompie1947
1870 J. Ruskin Aratra Pentelici 84 Orange-peel, foul straw, rags, and cigar-ends.
1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 14 Aug. 13/2 Cigar-end gathering..is practised more or less in every large town..The man who picks up thrown away cigar ends does not do so to smoke but to sell them.
cigar-holder n.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > articles or materials used in smoking > [noun] > thing which may be smoked > cigarette > cutter or holder
mouthpiece1673
cigar-cutter1859
cigar-holder1871
tobacco-cutter1877
cigarette-holder1879
1871 Chambers's Jrnl. Jan. Very dirty hands..make one resolve for the future to use a cigar-holder.
cigar-lighter n.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > articles or materials used in smoking > [noun] > thing which may be smoked > cigarette > lighter
cigar-lighter1874
lighter1895
cigarette lighter1915
petrol lighter1918
Ronson1929
Zippo1944
gas lighter1956
1874 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. I. 553/1 Cigar-lighter, a little gas-jet suspended by an elastic tube.
1905 Westm. Gaz. 16 Nov. 5/2 An electric cigar-lighter.
cigar-maker n.
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1856 X. D. MacLeod Biogr. F. Wood 47 He..became a journeyman cigar-maker.
1888 Buck's Handbk. Med. Sci. VI. 36/2 Cigarmakers' cramp must be an exceedingly rare affection. I can find reports upon it by only two observers.
1909 ‘O. Henry’ Roads of Destiny xviii. 303 Denver got a Cuban cigar-maker to fix up a little cipher code with English and Spanish words.
cigar-making n.
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1854 Mrs. E. Twisleton Let. 12 Feb. (1928) ix. 161 Pretty, graceful women, going home after their day's work at cigar-making at Alicante.
1957 Encycl. Brit. V. 703/1 Whereas early cigar-making was entirely by hand, machines now perform most of the steps.
cigar-shop n.
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1834 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz (1836) 1st Ser. I. 89 The window of a west-end cigar-shop.
cigar-smoke n.
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1905 E. Wharton House of Mirth i. xiv. 253 Through the cigar-smoke of the studio.
1956 Nature 10 Mar. 450/2 This paper makes the illuminating statement that cigar-smoke is the limit of precision of the method.
cigar-smoker n.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > [noun] > smoker > other
cigar-smoker1846
cigarette-smoker1886
chain-smoker1890
fag hag1943
fag ash Lil1971
passive smoker1976
1846 Observer 18 Oct. 3/2 Inveterate cigar smokers will consume from four to five dozen a week.
cigar-smoking n.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > [noun] > other
cigar-smoking1834
cigarette-smoking1888
chain-smoking1930
passive smoking1971
1834 Chambers's Edinb. Jrnl. 3 207/3 An abominable custom... We mean the practice of cigar-smoking.
cigar-stump n.
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1887 M. Roberts Western Avernus 160 Discarded chews and old cigar stumps.
cigar-tip n.
cigar-tube n.
b.
cigar-loving adj.
cigar-shaped adj.
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the world > space > shape > curvature > curved three-dimensional shape or body > cylinder > [adjective] > of other cylindrical shapes
caked1686
tuberose1704
cucumiform1826
sausage-like1852
bolt1859
cigar-shaped1887
torpedo-shaped1903
sausagey1921
whale-shaped1930
Zeppelinistic1930
top hat1958
1887 Scribner's Mag. 1 427/2 This torpedo..is fusiform, or cigar-shaped.
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cigar band n. [see band n.2 2]
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1963 N. Marsh Dead Water (1964) vi. 134 He compared the cigar band with the one he had picked up.
cigar-brown adj. having the brown colour of a cigar.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > brown or brownness > [adjective] > other browns
wainscot1577
earth-coloured1722
honey-brown1774
snuff-coloured1787
snuffy1789
moorit1795
iron brown1798
umber1802
umbery1850
sienna-brown1853
oily-brown1861
seal-brown1881
tabac1881
glandaceous1885
cigar-brown1895
bead-brown1912
cocoa1942
toffee-brown1961
toffee1962
sludgy1975
1895 Bow Bells XXXI. 297/1 Collar of cigar~brown velvet.
1934 ‘G. Orwell’ Burmese Days xi. 161 Peasants with cigar-brown faces.
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cigar-bundler n. a machine for binding cigars in bundles.
cigar-butt n. the waste end of a cigar.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > articles or materials used in smoking > [noun] > thing which may be smoked > cigar or cigarette > butt or end of
doup1710
butt end1827
old soldier1834
butt1847
stub1855
cigar-end1870
stub-end1875
cigarette-end1889
cigar-butt1891
snipe1891
fag end1892
fag1897
bumper1899
scag1915
cigarette-butt1923
dout1928
dog-end1934
roach1939
stompie1947
1891 R. Kipling Mark of Beast in Life's Handicap 210 Fleete..was gravely grinding the ashes of his cigar-butt in to the forehead of the red, stone image of Hanuman.
1902 Daily Chron. 5 Apr. 5/1 London's gutters now annually receive in cigar-butts and cigarette-ends tobacco to the value of £200,000.
cigar-fish n. a small cigar-shaped fish of the genus Decapterus, found in the West Indies and south-eastern U.S.
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the world > animals > fish > miscellaneous types > [noun]
mudfish1502
sprat1552
frogfish1598
rockfish1605
yellowtaila1622
sleeper1668
picarel1688
hogfish1735
porkfish1735
sucker1753
zebrafish1771
yellowbelly1775
white steenbras1801
stone-toter1817
stargazer1842
warehou1848
baardman1853
goatfish1864
holostome1864
spot snapper1876
suck-fish1876
mademoiselle1882
queenfish1883
cigar-fish1884
emperor fish1884
rock beauty1885
oilfish1896
aholehole1897
berrugate1898
Photoblepharon1902
sweet-lip1934
rabbitfish1941
redbait1960
1884 G. B. Goode in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 325 The Round Robin—Decapterus punctatus..or, as it is called at Pensacola, the ‘Cigar-fish’.
1960 List Names Fishes U.S. & Canada (Amer. Fisheries Soc.) (ed. 2) 45 Longfin cigarfish..Cubiceps gracilis.
cigar leaf n. tobacco suitable for cigars.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > [noun] > suitable for smoking
returns1789
cigar leaf1865
smoker1880
cigarette tobacco1905
1865 Trans. Illinois State Agric. Soc. 1861–4 5 669 Tobacco of this description should be..prized lightly in the casks so as to admit of a free and open leaf, such being mostly required for cigar leaf.
cigar-plant n. a Mexican plant of the genus Cuphea, having a scarlet tubular corolla tipped with black and white ( Cent. Dict. 1889).
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > non-British plants or herbs > [noun] > American or West Indian
masterwort1523
hogweed1707
black root1709
many-seed1750
Martynia1753
Maranta1754
hog meat1756
iron1756
Evolvulus1764
zebra plant1826
turkey-flower1843
vriesia1843
Spanish needles1846
turkey-blossom1849
horse poison1851
St Martin's herb1860
goatweed1864
wake-robin1864
frog-bit1866
herb of St. Martin1866
pipi1866
goatweed1869
cigar-plant1961
1961 Amateur Gardening 23 Sept. 4/1 Cuphea ignea, the cigar plant, is a useful addition to the summer range, with a compact bushy habit and scarlet tubular flowers.
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cigar-press n. a machine for compressing cigars horizontally and vertically.
cigar-ship n.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel of specific construction or shape > [noun] > having specific overall shape
butterbox1840
cigar-ship1869
flat-iron1886
toothpick1897
pig1898
1869 Daily News 12 June The cigar-ship, strangest of all naval productions.
cigar-steamer n. a ship made in the shape of a cigar.
cigar-store n. U.S. a shop specializing in the sale of cigars and smoking accessories.
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1848 ‘N. Buntline’ Mysteries & Miseries N.Y. ii. 23 Are you going back to that hateful cigar store?
1930 J. Dos Passos 42nd Parallel 16 Wooden Indians outside of cigarstores.
1948 Chicago Daily News 17 Nov. 26/1 The retailer and the buyer in the cigar store.
cigar-store Indian n. an effigy of a North American Indian, placed outside a cigar-store; also figurative.
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society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > shop-front > sign or signboard > specific
ale stake1396
ale-pole1523
pole1533
three golden balls1748
cigar-store Indian1926
1926 E. Hemingway Fiesta (1927) ii. xv. 178 All we could see of the procession..were the great giants, cigar-store Indians, thirty feet high.
1952 B. Malamud Natural 172 What she saw in this half-bald apology for a cigar store Indian had him beat.
1963 S. Mitchell Sables spell Trouble iv. 40 I'd got about as much rise out of him as I would out of a cigar-store Indian.
cigar-tree n. U.S. the catalpa.
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1872 Amer. Naturalist 6 727 The beautiful catalpa, or ‘cigar-tree’ (Catalpa bignonioides), grew as a common species among the underwoods.
1933 J. K. Small Man. Southeastern Flora 1241 Catalpa..Indian-beans. Indian-cigars. Cigar-trees.
Derivatives
ciˈgared adj. furnished with a cigar.Apparently an isolated use.
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1830 E. Bulwer-Lytton Paul Clifford I. vi. 107 Prowling in Regent Street, towards the evening, whiskered and cigarred.
ciˈgarer n. a cigar-smoker.Apparently an isolated use.
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1826 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 20 155 Particular pipemen, and solitary cigarers, no doubt, always existed.
ciˈgarified adj. Apparently an isolated use.
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1848 W. M. Thackeray Bk. Snobs xxx. 114 A stupid little cigarrified Cornet of dragoons.
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colloquial (originally U.S.). close but no cigar and variants: (of an attempt, etc.) falling just short of success; (of a situation, etc.) not quite as desired or anticipated.
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1929 Princeton Alumni Weekly 2 July 1166/2 The long distance trophy [for attendance at a class reunion]..was awarded to Em Gooch who had made the trip from Lincoln, Neb. for the occasion. Several other members came close, but no cigar.]
1930 Cleveland (Ohio) Plain Dealer 6 Mar. 24/6 [Bowling] Peters..toppled the maples for 120, 100 and 100. Scott was right behind him with 113, 115 and 117. Close—but no cigar.
1952 San Francisco News 30 Oct. 31/1 Close but no cigar... Often it's a thin capricious line that separates winner from loser.
1960 San Francisco Call-Bulletin 30 July Shelly Berman's success in ‘The Mirror Under the Eagle’ at the Bucks County Playhouse brought many offers from producers who wanted him for plays next session—but no cigar.
2003 Variety 9 June 26/1 The clear ambition here is to recapture the raw, explosively violent atmosphere of such hallmark 1970s shockers as ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ and ‘The Hills Have Eyes’. Nice try, but no cigar.
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