cigarette
Etymology
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Etymology
Borrowed from French cigarette, from cigare, from Spanish cigarro + diminutive suffix -ette.
Pronunciation- IPA: /ˈsɪ.ɡə.ɹɛt/, /sɪ.ɡəˈɹɛt/
cigarette (plural cigarettes)
Tobacco or other substances, in a thin roll wrapped with paper, intended to be smoked. - 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC ↗, page 46 ↗:
- No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or otherwise his man would be there with a message to say that his master would shortly join me if I would kindly wait.
- 1989 January 27, Stephen Fry et al., “Doctor Tobacco”, in A Bit of Fry and Laurie, Season 1, Episode 3:
- Tobacconist: Right. I want to try you on a course of these: one twenty times a day. Have you taken them before?
Patient: Um, what is it?
Tobacconist: It's a simple nicotinal arsenous monoxid preparation taken bronchially as an infumation.
Patient: Infumation?
Tobacconist: Yes, you just light the end and breathe it.
Patient: What, like cigarettes?
Tobacconist: You know them then. Actually, it's a bit hard to admit but they're basically an herbal remedy... A leaf originally from the Americas, I believe, called tobacco.
Patient: But medicated?
Tobacconist: Medicated? No.
Patient: These are ordinary cigarettes?
Tobacconist: That's right.
Patient: But they're terribly bad for you, aren't they?
Tobacconist: I hardly think I would be prescribing them if they were bad for you.
Patient: Twenty a day?
Tobacconist: Yes, ideally moving on to about thirty or forty.
- French: cigarette
- German: Zigarette, Kippe (colloquial)
- Italian: sigaretta
- Portuguese: cigarro
- Russian: сигаре́та
- Spanish: cigarrillo, pitillo (dated, Spain)
cigarette (cigarettes, present participle cigaretting; simple past and past participle cigaretted)
- (transitive, slang, rare) To give someone a cigarette, or to light one for them.
- Could someone cigarette me?
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