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
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
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
A shyster," began Mr. Tutt, unsuccessfully applying a forced draft to his stogy and then throwing it away, "bears about the same relation to an honest lawyer as a cad does to a gentleman.
From By Advice of Counsel by Arthur Cheney Train
Then he lit a stogy and stretched his long legs comfortably out under the narrow table.
From By Advice of Counsel by Arthur Cheney Train
Mr. Tutt threw his stogy into the fire and fumbled for another in the long box on the library table.
From By Advice of Counsel 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
He revealed a different narrative than the rich-boy persona that has dogged him, enshrined in part by his own reserve, and it felt as genuine as Schwarzenegger’s giant stogies or Brown’s beloved pups.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 9, 2023
"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
It seemed too late to start chastising myself for being a naïve American tourist dumb enough to be coaxed into the night for a few stogies.
From New York Times ● Nov. 20, 2015
“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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