stogy
- noun
- /ˈstoʊɡi/
- Archaic
- This got Alvaro to thinking, and before you know it, we were sitting in the outdoor cigar lounge of Home House in Mayfair, lighting up some stogies as an experiment to see how well they would match with red wine.
- smoked a stogy
- old stogies
Examples
-
Do we still smoke stogies and have scotch for breakfast?
-
I enjoyed a cheap and thin stogy while watching the game.
-
Got a stogy for me?
-
Thanks for the stogies, Pop.
-
Hey, I got you one of Larson's stogies.
-
Smoking $10 stogies.
-
The portly gentleman Sniffing his stogy is k.o. Bailey.
-
He infected the air around her with his cheap, ropy Havana stogies.
Fiction book (1994) -
He always brings his favorite stogy to the fishing trip.
-
After dinner, they relaxed on the porch with a couple of stogies.
Synonyms
Surface Forms
Etymology
Stogy comes from Conestoga, the name of a big 'wagon' used in early America, because the drivers of those wagons often smoked long, cheap cigars that people began to call stogies. So stogy today means a simple, thin, long cigar.