单词 | quirly |
释义 | quirlyn. Originally and chiefly U.S. regional (western). A cigarette, esp. one that is hand-rolled. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > articles or materials used in smoking > [noun] > thing which may be smoked > cigarette cigarito1832 paper cigar1833 cigarette1842 papelito1845 coffin-nailc1865 fag1885 butt1893 pill1901 scag1915 nail1925 quirly1932 tab1934 burn1941 draw1946 tube1946 snout1950 cancer stick1958 straight1959 ciggy1962 square1970 bifter1989 lung dart1990 dart2000 1932 ‘Spindrift’ Yankee Slang 30 Quirly, quirley,..cigarette. 1945 R. F. Adams Western Words 122/1 Quirly, the cowboy's name for his cigarette. 1953 S. J. Baker Austral. Speaks iv. 106 To return to the field of popular Australianisms, here are some more items worthy of record..quirley, a cigarette; [etc.]. 1955 W. Foster-Harris Look of Old West iv. 113 The cowboy's hand-built smoke was, as he called it, a quirly. 1992 R. Compton Goodnight Trail ii. 17 Jake, using twice as much of the tobacco as Brazos had, twisted his quirly and lit it with an ember from the fire. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1932 |
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