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
He almost bumped into Philip Plotkin, of Kleinberg & Plotkin, who was licking the refractory wrapper of a Wheeling stogy, with one eye fixed on the automobile in front of his competitors' store.
From Potash & Perlmutter Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures by Glass, Montague
"My, isn't this nice!" murmured Doc, trying unsuccessfully to eat a muffin, drink his tea and do justice to a stogy at the same time.
From Tutt and Mr. Tutt by Train, Arthur Cheney
"An' if this stogy continues t' behave, we'll say no more about the vanishin' leddy."
From The Lure of the Mask by Fisher, Harrison
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