stogy
Americannoun
plural
stogies-
a long, slender, roughly made, inexpensive cigar.
-
a coarse, heavy boot or shoe.
noun
Etymology
Origin of stogy
1840–50, stog(a) (short for Conestoga, town in Pennsylvania) + -y 2
Example Sentences
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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
Leon Sammet, head of the copartnership of Sammet Brothers, sat in the firm's sample room and puffed gloomily at a Wheeling stogy.
From Potash & Perlmutter Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures by Glass, Montague
"Nobody," replied his partner with gravity, biting off the end of a last year's stogy salvaged from the bottom of the letter basket.
From By Advice of Counsel by Train, Arthur Cheney
The senior partner of Tutt & Tutt ran his bony fingers through the lank gray locks over his left eye and tilted ceilingward the stogy between his thin lips.
From Tutt and Mr. Tutt by Train, Arthur Cheney
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