What is the difference between stogie and cigar?
stogie | cigar |
(slang) A thin, cheap cigar, from Conestoga Township, Pennsylvania.
(slang) Any type of cigar.
(dated) Brogan.
Tobacco, rolled and wrapped with an outer covering of tobacco leaves, intended to be smoked.
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*:Long after his cigar burnt bitter, he sat with eyes fixed on the blaze. When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped?; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs and ball-gown kneeling on the hearth.
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Cigar is a synonym of stogie.
As nouns the difference between stogie and cigar
is that stogie is a thin, cheap cigar, from Conestoga Township, Pennsylvania while cigar is tobacco, rolled and wrapped with an outer covering of tobacco leaves, intended to be smoked.stogie
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(en noun)The China Governess, passage=A waiter brought his aperitif, which was a small scotch and soda, and as he sipped it gratefully he sighed. ¶ ‘Civilized,’ he said to Mr. Campion. ‘Humanizing.’ […] ‘Cigars and summer days and women in big hats with swansdown face-powder, that's what it reminds me of.’}}