cigaretten.
/ˌsɪɡəˈrɛt/, U.S. /ˌsɪɡəˈrɛt/, /ˈsɪɡəˌrɛt/ 1. A small cigar made of a little finely-cut tobacco rolled up in thin paper, tobacco-leaf, or maize-husk.
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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
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
1842 L. S. Costello Pilgrimage Auvergne I. 332 The habit of smoking cigarettes..is quite la grande mode of late with certain French ladies.
1843 I. F. Romer Rhone I. 252 The beggars in the streets have paper cigars (called cigarettes) in their mouths.
1883 ‘G. Lloyd’ Ebb & Flow II. xxviii. 118 I am lounging about smoking a cigarette and thinking of nothing.
1897 G. B. Shaw in Sat. Rev. 1 May 470/2 Presenting every lady in the audience with a locket and every gentleman with a cigarette case.
1934 G. B. Shaw Simpleton ii. 47 His poor little secret vice of cigaret smoking.
1945 H. L. Mencken Amer. Lang. Suppl. I. 361 The English..are slow to follow American example in such forms as cigaret and etiquet.
1968 Chicago Tribune 9 July i. 12/3 He smoked three or four packs of cigarets a day.
1968 S. Challis Death on Quiet Beach iv. 43 They lit cigarets and Stenfalt looked at him over a blue spiral of smoke.
2. Medicine. A similar roll of the leaves of medicinal plants or other medicated substances for smoking.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > other miscellaneous medicines > [noun] > medicines to be burnt, smoked, or inhaled
suffite1621
suffiment1650
vaporary1657
cigarette1876
medicated candle1880
inhalation1882
1876 R. Bartholow Pract. Treat. Materia Med. i. 7 The most effective method of treating an asthmatic paroxysm is by means of a cigarette containing various narcotic substances.
1881 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon
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C1. Generalattributive.
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cigarette-box n.
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1890 Peel City Guardian 11 Jan. 3/5 The smoker's set of cigar and cigarette box.
1909 J. Galsworthy Silver Box 111 Theft of a silver cigarette box.
cigarette-butt 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
1923 J. Dos Passos Streets of Night iii. 90 They tramped up a creaking stair littered with cigarette butts.
1931 New Statesman 16 May 418 At every few steps he bent down quickly, picked up a cigarette-butt from the pavement, and put it into his pocket.
cigarette-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
1883 B. Potter Let. in B. Webb My Apprenticeship (1926) iii. 157 I produced my cigarette-case and offered the company some ‘Welsh cigars’.
1939 T. S. Eliot Family Reunion ii. iii. 128 He thinks he left his cigarette-case on the table.
cigarette catcher n.
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1921 Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) §469 Cigarette catcher; cigarette machine receiver, gathers finished cigarettes from cigarette machine.
cigarette-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
1889 Tobacco Apr. 126/1 Waxing cigarette-ends..has for its object preventing the end of the cigarette from sticking to the lips.
1893 Graphic 4 Feb. 110/2 The..dearth of..cigarette-ends did not seem to depress him at all.
1902 Westm. Gaz. 24 Sept. 10/2 Someone dropped a lighted cigarette-end in the hay.
1933 J. Cary Amer. Visitor ii. 26 Cottee spat his cigarette-end at a bubble on the stream.
cigarette-factory n.
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1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 5 Sept. 6/2 The largest cigarette factory in the world is said to be that of La Honradez, Cuba.
cigarette-filler n.
cigarette habit n.
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1914 Evening News 10 Oct. 2/7 Our officers..brought the cigarette habit back with them from the Crimea, where they learned it from the Russians.
cigarette-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
1879 M. W. Hungerford Airy Fairy Lilian II. xv. 90 Enough meerschaum pipes, and cigarette holders, and tobacco stands to stock a small shop.
1921 A. Huxley Crome Yellow xvii. 179 An immensely long cigarette-holder projected..from her face.
cigarette-maker n.
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1889 Tobacco June 189/1 (heading) Messrs. Philip Morris and Co. and their cigarette-makers.
1890 F. M. Crawford (title) A cigarette-maker's romance.
1894 Daily News 1 Oct. 5/3 The cigarette-makers' cramp, so well-known in the tobacco manufactories of Spain.
1897 Lippincott's Med. Dict. Cigar-makers' cramp or Cigarette-makers' cramp. Painful contraction of the flexors of the fingers, sometimes seen in cigar- and cigarette-makers.
cigarette-making n.
cigarette-merchant n.
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1909 Daily Chron. 24 Nov. 6/6 Before the war there was a cigarette merchant..in Great Winchester-buildings.
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cigarette-paper n.
cigarette-smoke n.
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1900 E. Wharton Gift from Grave vi. 74 A mist of cigarette smoke.
1918 A. Bennett Roll-call i. iii. 44 The ruthless George, behind cigarette smoke.
cigarette-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
1886 Illustr. London News 2 Jan. 2/1 Passwords among cigarette-smokers.
cigarette-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
1888 Tobacco Apr. 127/1 (heading) Why he quit cigarette-smoking.
1906 Westm. Gaz. 10 Sept. 1/2 Cigarette-smoking was then [sc. in 1856] habitual in St. Petersburg.
cigarette-tobacco n.
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cigarette-laden adj.
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1905 Daily Chron. 17 July 8/6 The cigarette-laden air of the sensuous room.
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cigarette beetle n. = tobacco beetle n. at tobacco n. Compounds 4.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Diversicornia > family Anobiidae > lasioderma serricorne (tobacco beetle)
cigarette beetle1891
tobacco beetle1896
1891 Cent. Dict. Tobacco beetle..Also called cigarette-beetle.
1895 J. H. Comstock & A. B. Comstock Man. Study Insects 553 The Cigarette Beetle, Lasioderma serricorne..is a serious pest in tobacco manufactories, infesting the dried tobacco-leaves and the manufactured products.
1896 J. B. Smith Econ. Entomol. 193 The Lasioderma serricorne, popularly known as the ‘tobacco-’ or ‘cigarette-beetle’.
1959 E. F. Linssen Beetles Brit. Isles 2nd Ser. 64 Lasioderma serricorne..is red in colour... The beetle is popularly known as the Cigarette or Tobacco Beetle.
cigarette card n. a picture card inserted by the makers in a packet or box of cigarettes.
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1902 Little Folks 159/1 2d. a dozen for cigarette cards (Ogden's Guinea Gold).
1926 Punch 29 Sept. 345 Got any cigarette-cards, lady?
cigarette coupon n. [coupon n. 2] a voucher inserted in a packet of cigarettes.
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society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > paper money > promissory notes or bills of exchange > [noun] > coupon > specific kind of
cigarette coupon1906
petrol coupon1919
twofer1948
1906 Bazaar, Exch. & Mart Suppl. 1335/3 Black Cat cigarette coupons wanted.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xvii. [Ithaca] 661 Soll und Haben by Gustav Freytag..cigarette coupon bookmark at p. 24.
1932 L. Golding Magnolia St. iii. vi. 540 If any of those watches were the reward paid for an industrious accumulation of cigarette coupons, he replaced them.
cigarette girl n. a girl who makes or sells cigarettes.
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1916 A. Bennett Lion's Share vii. 51 The adventure of the cigarette girl.
1918 A. Bennett Pretty Lady i. 3 The programme girls, the cigarette girls, the chocolate girls, the cloak-room girls.
1968 L. Deighton Only when I Larf xi. 133 A cigarette girl came past and he clicked his fingers at her and asked for matches.
cigarette heart n. a condition of the heart induced by excessive smoking of cigarettes.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of heart > [noun] > other heart disorders
regurgitation1683
pneumopericardium1821
concentric hypertrophy1828
hydropericardium1834
stenocardia1842
cardiosclerosis1848
pyopericardium1848
irritable heart1864
pyopneumopericardium1878
tobacco heart1884
akinesis1888
smoker's heart1888
pneumopericarditis1890
cardioptosis1895
soldier's heart1898
diver's palsy1900
cardiomyopathy1901
cigarette heart1908
neurocirculatory asthenia1918
Fallot1922
cor pulmonale1935
Wolff–Parkinson–White syndrome1935
fibroelastosis1943
restenosis1954
akinesia1970
stress cardiomyopathy2005
1908 Daily Chron. 29 Jan. 7/2 Witness examined his heart and found no organic disease; it was a ‘cigarette heart’.
cigarette lighter n. a mechanical apparatus for lighting a cigarette.
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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
1915 Scotsman 26 Jan. 5/3 Colonel Thompson, of the Black Watch, asks for tinder cigarette lighters.
1929 M. de la Roche Whiteoaks ix. 135 ‘The very thing for him!’ she exclaimed to Alayne, energetically snapping her cigarette-lighter.
1962 Which? Car Suppl. Oct. 138/1 Cigarette lighter would not eject properly.
cigarette machine n. a machine that manufactures or dispenses cigarettes.
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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 > machine for making or dispensing cigarettes
cigarette machine1878
1878 Sci. Amer. XXXVIII. 411/1 Cigarette machine.
1951 M. McLuhan Mech. Bride 106/1 They kick the cigarette machine.
cigarette paper n. paper or a paper in which cigarettes or a cigarette is rolled.
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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 > tobacco and paper for rolling > cigarette paper
cigarette paper1860
Zig-Zag1909
papera1911
Rizla1916
Rizla paper1939
rolling paper1943
tissue1952
skin1967
1860 Harper's Mag. Apr. 691/1 His notes were written on cigarette-paper.
1901 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 13 July 100/1 For the purpose of selling..any cigarettes, cigarette paper, or any substitute for the same.
1958 J. R. Biggs Woodcuts 91 Cigarette Paper is a satisfactory though extremely thin white paper, for making prints by burnishing, but care must be taken not to tear the print.
cigarette picture n. = cigarette card n.
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1902 Little Folks I. 158/1 90 cigarette pictures (not all different) to dispose of at 90 for 1s.
1912 E. Wallace Private Selby viii What you ought to do..is to collect cigarette pictures.
1944 B. Johnson As much as I Dare 23 This collection yielded place to cigarette pictures.
cigarette tobacco n. tobacco specially adapted for cigarette making.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > [noun] > suitable for smoking
returns1789
cigar leaf1865
smoker1880
cigarette tobacco1905
1905 in Daily Chron. 10 Oct. 6/2 The..manufacture of cigarettes or cigarette tobacco.
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cigarette pants n. trousers with straight, very narrow legs, typically worn by women.
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1963 Bakersfield Californian 13 Apr. 11/7 Cigarette pants are a style hit on the Cote d'Azur.
1990 Vogue Sept. 133 (advt.) The autumn jacket is softly tailored and elegantly slim, slipping over tapered skirts and narrow cigarette pants.
2004 A. Robbins Pledged 167 Slim, tailored button-down shirts and skinny cigarette pants.
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