stogy
Americannoun
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stogies
plural
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a long, slender, roughly made, inexpensive cigar.
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a coarse, heavy boot or shoe.
noun
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Etymology
Origin of stogy
1840–50, stog(a) (short for Conestoga, town in Pennsylvania) + -y 2
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Mickey Berra tells of drinking Scotch with Princess Margaret, smoking a stogy with George Burns, placing a football bet for Elizabeth Taylor, and shooting the breeze with James Brown.
From Washington Post ● May 27, 2016
From his mouth protrudes a long, black stogy.
From Time Magazine Archive
The elder lawyer sucked meditatively on the fag end of his stogy before replying.
From By Advice of Counsel by Arthur Cheney Train
"Payson, Senior," answered Mr. Tutt as he snipped off the end of a stogy with the pair of nail scissors which he always carried in his vest pocket.
From By Advice of Counsel by Arthur Cheney Train
Mr. Tutt had demanded severely from behind the stogy, which even at that early date had been as much a part of his facial anatomy as his long ruminative nose.
From Tutt and Mr. Tutt by Arthur Cheney Train
Meanwhile, Drew Wile, the other parent, suggested the principal was singling out athletes, noting other Ipswich High graduates were spotted with stogies after the June 7 ceremony.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026
Enough ludicrous things studio heads — sitting in their offices, feet on their desks, puffing on big stogies — have said and done to composers could fill an amusing book.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2021
"I hope your pump was juicy and may your day be filled with lots of schnitzel, schnapps and stogies!!!"
From Fox News ● Jul. 31, 2021
With one whiff I can tell why the place is called “Cigar City,” as people all around me are smoking hand-rolled stogies.
From New York Times ● May 23, 2017
“None of your rancid stogies in here, Commander!” he brayed, the moment Root made it back to Ops.
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
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