chibouk
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of chibouk
1805–15; < Turkish çibuk, variant of çubuk literally, shoot, sapling, staff
Example Sentences
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He performs his daily labor, makes his prostrations, smokes his chibouk, and lives oblivious of care.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various
Oh! some must tug the galley's oar, and some must tend the steed— This boy will bear a Scheik's chibouk, and that a Bey's jerreed.
From Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry by T. W. (Thomas William) Rolleston
Dropper protested that he wouldn't make his lungs a stove-pipe to oblige anybody—even the sultan and his sultanas—and he accordingly dropped the hose, and ordered a chibouk.
From The History and Records of the Elephant Club by Q. K. Philander Doesticks
We had a good Arab dinner, with the national kouskous, followed by a chibouk.
From Notes in North Africa Being a Guide to the Sportsman and Tourist in Algeria and Tunisia by W. G. Windham
A boy of sixteen or eighteen was occupied incessantly in filling, lighting, and cleaning the chibouk of his master.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 by Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle
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