单词 | cigar |
释义 | cigarn. a. A compact roll of tobacco-leaves for smoking, one end being taken in the mouth while the other is lit. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 1903 A. Bennett Leonora ii. 50 A cigar-cabinet on the sideboard. cigar-case n. ΘΚΠ 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. 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 > 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. ΘΚΠ 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. 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 > 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. 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 > 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. ΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 1834 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz (1836) 1st Ser. I. 89 The window of a west-end cigar-shop. cigar-smoke n. ΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. C2. cigar band n. [see band n.2 2] ΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. Categories » cigar-bundler n. a machine for binding cigars in bundles. cigar-butt n. the waste end of a cigar. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). ΘΚΠ 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. Categories » cigar-press n. a machine for compressing cigars horizontally and vertically. cigar-ship n. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 1826 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 20 155 Particular pipemen, and solitary cigarers, no doubt, always existed. ciˈgarified adj. Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1848 W. M. Thackeray Bk. Snobs xxx. 114 A stupid little cigarrified Cornet of dragoons. Draft additions June 2004 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. ΚΠ 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1735 |
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