hookah
noun
a tobacco pipe of Near Eastern origin with a long, flexible tube by which the smoke is drawn through a jar of water and thus cooled.
hooka
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a variation of
hookah.
Example Sentences
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No matter,—the bluff burghers, puffing freedom out of their short tobacco-pipes, might be worth seeing; though I prefer a cigar or a hooka, with the rose-leaf mixed with the milder herb of the Levant.
From The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 by Rowland Edmund Prothero, Baron Ernle
The Havannah are the best;—but neither are so pleasant as a hooka or chibouque.
From Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 2 With His Letters and Journals by Thomas Moore
Gracefully reclined upon an ottoman, the mock amber mouthpiece of a gilt hooka between his lips, he dreams, with half-closed eyes, of Oriental luxury!
From The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Charles James Lever
A hooka was in advance of the table before the sofa; it was magnificently wrought in silver, and the snake passed under the table, so that the tube was within my honoured father's reach.
From Japhet, in Search of a Father by Frederick Marryat
Even in the middle of the day, when all respectable folks in the village enjoyed their after-dinner siesta, Jaganath might be seen roaming over the village, hooka in hand.
From Mashi and Other Stories by Rabindranath Tagore
