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cigar|sɪˈgɑː(r)|
Forms: 8 seegar, cegar, seguar (sagar), 8–9 segar, 9– cigarre, cigar.
[ad. Sp. cigarro: in F. cigare.
The Spanish word appears not to be from any lang. of W. Indies. Its close formal affinity to Sp. cigarra ‘cicada’, naturally suggests its formation from that word, esp. as derivatives often differ merely in gender. Barcia, Great Etymol. Spanish Dict., says ‘el cigarro figura una cigarra de papel’ (the cigar has the form of a cicada of paper). Mahn also thinks that the roll of tobacco leaf was compared to the body of the insect, which is cylindrical with a conical apex. The name cigarral applied to a kind of pleasure-garden and summer-house (as in the cigarrales of Toledo), which has sometimes been pressed into service in discussing the etymology, is said by Barcia, after P. Guadio, to be related neither to cigarra nor cigarro, but to be of Arabic origin meaning ‘little house’ (casa pequeña). It is said however to be applied in Cuba to a tobacco garden or nursery.]
1. a. A compact roll of tobacco-leaves for smoking, one end being taken in the mouth while the other is lit.
1735J. Cockburn Journ. 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. 1777W. Dalrymple Trav. Sp. & Port. 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. 1778Pennant Journ. Snowdon 28 Pipes were not then invented, so they used the twisted leaves, or segars. a1787Colman Man of Business iv, Many a Sagar have little Goldy and I smoaked together. 1823Byron Island ii. xix, Give me a cigar. 1833Marryat P. Simple xvii, A paper segar. 1869Ruskin Q. 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.
1876Field & Forest II. 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.
1923Daily Mail 16 Apr. 1 Grey, Mole, Cigar, Champagne, Light Tan. Ibid. 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.
2. Comb., as cigar-box, cigar-cabinet, cigar-case, cigar-cutter, cigar-end, cigar-holder, cigar-lighter, cigar-maker (so cigar-making), cigar-shop, cigar-smoke, cigar-smoker, cigar-smoking, cigar-stump, cigar-tip, cigar-tube, etc.; cigar-loving, cigar-shaped, etc., adjs.; cigar band [see band n.2 2]; cigar-brown a. having the brown colour of a cigar; cigar-bundler, a machine for binding cigars in bundles; cigar-butt, the waste end of a cigar; cigar-fish, a small cigar-shaped fish of the genus Decapterus, found in the West Indies and south-eastern United States; cigar leaf, tobacco suitable for cigars; cigar-plant, a Mexican plant of the genus Cuphea, having a scarlet tubular corolla tipped with black and white (Cent. Dict. 1889); cigar-press, a machine for compressing cigars horizontally and vertically; cigar-ship, -steamer, a ship made in the shape of a cigar; cigar-store U.S., a shop specializing in the sale of cigars and smoking accessories; cigar-store Indian, an effigy of a North American Indian, placed outside a cigar-store; also fig.; cigar-tree U.S., the catalpa.
1963N. Marsh Dead Water (1964) vi. 134 He compared the *cigar band with the one he had picked up.
1836Dickens Sk. Boz 1st Ser. I. 321 Cigars..are..two a penny, in a regular authentic *cigar box. 1878B. F. Taylor Between Gates 252 We have been circling about that cigar⁓box of a town. 1888Kipling Departm. Ditties (1890, ed. 4) 105 Open the old cigar-box. 1907A. L. Winton tr. Hanausek's Microsc. Techn. Prod. 219 Cedrela odorata L., Spanish Cedar, Cigar⁓box Wood.
1895Bow Bells XXXI. 297/1 Collar of *cigar⁓brown velvet. 1934‘G. Orwell’ Burmese Days xi. 161 Peasants with cigar-brown faces.
1890Kipling Life's Handicap (1891) 242 Fleete..was gravely grinding the ashes of his *cigar-butt in to the forehead of the red, stone image of Hanuman. 1902Daily Chron. 5 Apr. 5/1 London's gutters now annually receive in cigar-butts and cigarette-ends tobacco to the value of {pstlg}200,000.
1903A. Bennett Leonora ii. 50 A *cigar-cabinet on the sideboard.
1844C. F. Mersch tr. C. Sealsfield's Cabin Bk. 15, I had my *cigar case, and a small roll of Virginia dulcissimus. 1847C. Brontë J. Eyre II. ix. 244 Unfortunately I have neither my cigar-case, nor my snuff-box. a1863Thackeray 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.
1859F. W. Fairholt Tobacco iv. 224 Another simple little implement, to act as *cigar-cutter and holder. 1905Daily 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.
1870Ruskin Aratra Pentel. 84 (Hoppe) Orange-peel, foul straw, rags, and *cigar-ends. 1886Pall Mall G. 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.
1884Goode Nat. Hist. Aquatic Anim. 325 The Round Robin—Decapterus punctatus..or, as it is called at Pensacola, the ‘*Cigar-fish’. 1960List Names Fishes U.S. & Canada (Amer. Fisheries Soc.) (ed. 2) 45 Longfin cigarfish..Cubiceps gracilis.
1871Chamb. Jrnl. Jan. (Hoppe), Very dirty hands..make one resolve for the future to use a *cigar-holder.
1865Trans. Ill. Agric. Soc. 1863 V. 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.
a1877Knight Dict. Mech. 553/1 *Cigar-lighter, a little gas-jet suspended by an elastic tube. 1905Westm. Gaz. 16 Nov. 5/2 An electric cigar-lighter.
1856X. D. Macleod Biogr. F. Wood 47 He..became a journeyman *cigar-maker. 1909‘O. Henry’ Roads of Destiny 303 Denver got a Cuban cigar-maker to fix up a little cipher code with English and Spanish words.
1854Mrs. E. Twisleton Let. 12 Feb. (1928) ix. 161 Pretty, graceful women, going home after their day's work at *cigar-making at Alicante. 1957Encycl. Brit. V. 703/1 Whereas early cigar-making was entirely by hand, machines now perform most of the steps.
1961Amat. 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.
1887Scribn. Mag. I. 427/2 This torpedo..is fusiform, or *cigar-shaped.
1869Daily News 12 June, The *cigar-ship, strangest of all naval productions.
1836–9Dickens Sk. Boz, Streets iii, The window of a west-end *cigar-shop.
1905E. Wharton House of Mirth i. xiv. 247 Through the *cigar-smoke of the studio. 1956Nature 10 Mar. 450/2 This paper makes the illuminating statement that cigar-smoke is the limit of precision of the method.
1846Observer 18 Oct. 3/2 Inveterate *cigar smokers will consume from four to five dozen a week.
1834Chambers's Edin. Jrnl. III. 207/3 An abominable custom... We mean the practice of *cigar-smoking.
1848‘N. Buntline’ Myst. N.Y. ii. 23 Are you going back to that hateful *cigar store? 1926Hemingway Fiesta (1927) ii. xv. 178 All we could see of the procession..were the great giants, cigar-store Indians, thirty feet high. 1930J. Dos Passos 42nd Parallel 16 Wooden Indians outside of cigarstores. 1948Chicago Daily News 17 Nov. 26/1 The retailer and the buyer in the cigar store. 1952B. Malamud Natural 172 What she saw in this half-bald apology for a cigar store Indian had him beat. 1963S. 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.
1887M. Roberts West. Avernus 160 Discarded chews and old *cigar stumps.
1872Amer. Naturalist VI. 727 The beautiful catalpa, or ‘*cigar-tree’ (Catalpa bignonioides), grew as a common species among the underwoods. 1933J. K. Small Man. S.E. Flora 1241 Catalpa..Indian-beans. Indian-cigars. Cigar-trees.
Hence (nonce-wds.) ciˈgared a., furnished with a cigar; ciˈgarer, a cigar-smoker; ciˈgarified a.
1830Lytton P. Clifford vi, Prowling in Regent Street towards evening, whiskered and cigared. 1826Blackw. Mag. XX. 155 Particular pipemen, and solitary cigarers, no doubt, always existed. 1848Thackeray Bk. Snobs xxx, A stupid little cigarrified Count of dragoons.
▸ colloq. (orig. 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.
1935J. SayrE & J. Twist Annie Oakley (film script) 82 Close, Colonel, but no cigar! 1960San 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. 2003Variety 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. |