cigar
[ si-gahr ]
/ sɪˈgɑr /
noun
a more or less cylindrical roll of tobacco cured for smoking, of any of various lengths, thicknesses, degrees of straightness, etc., usually wrapped in a tobacco leaf.
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Nearby words
cie., cienfuegos, cif, cife, cig, cigar, cigar flower, cigar store, cigar-store indian, cigarette, cigarette beetle
Idioms
no cigar, Informal. not being a winning or successful effort, as if not good enough to earn a cigar as a prize: He made a good try at fielding the ball, but no cigar.
Origin of cigar
First recorded in 1625–35, cigar is from the Spanish word cigarro
Related formsci·gar·less, adjectiveci·gar·like, adjective
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British Dictionary definitions for cigar
cigar
/ (sɪˈɡɑː) /
noun
a cylindrical roll of cured tobacco leaves, for smoking
Word Origin for cigar
C18: from Spanish cigarro, perhaps from Mayan sicar to smoke
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Word Origin and History for cigar
cigar
1730, from Spanish cigarro (source also of French cigare), probably from Maya sicar "to smoke rolled tobacco leaves," from si'c "tobacco;" or from or influenced by Spanish cigarra "grasshopper, cicada" (on resemblance of shape), from Vulgar Latin *cicala (source also of French cigale, Italian cigala). Cigar-box is from 1819; cigar-store from 1839; the wooden cigar-store Indian is from 1879, American English, but wooden images of feathered Indians or Negroes are mentioned outside tobacconists' shops in England by 1852, and are said to have been in earlier use on the Continent.
Blackamoors and other dark-skinned foreigners have always possessed considerable attractions as signs for tobacconists, and sometimes also for public-houses. Negroes, with feathered headdresses and kilts, smoking pipes, are to be seen outside tobacco shops on the Continent, as well as in England. [Jacob Larwood and John Camden Hotten, "The History of Signboards From the Earliest Times to the Present Day," London, 1867]
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