cheroot
/ʃəˈɹuːt/
cheroot noun: a cigar with square-cut ends.
Noun
cheroot (plural cheroots)
- A cigar with square-cut ends.
- The lowest classes of Europeans, as also of the natives, and, indeed, most of the officers of country-ships, frequently smoke cheroots, exactly corresponding with the Spanish segar, though usually made rather more bulky. However fragrant the smokers themselves may consider cheroots, those who use...1810, Thomas Williamson, The East India Vade-Mecum, volume I, London: Black, Parry & Kingsbury, page 499
- Purchased—of a Hawker, in Whitechapel-road. ¶ These cheroots were made up of two twisted wrappers or layers of thin brown paper, while the interior consisted entirely of hay, not a particle of tobacco entering into their composition. ¶ It appears that about the neighbourhood of Whitechapel, the...1853, The Lancet, Vol. II, The Analytical Sanitary Commission. Cigars and their Adulterations, pp. 444-445, https://books.google.ca/books?id=_ZJMAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
cheroot meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Bengali and Telugu
cheroot in Hindi
- cigar
- चुरुट curuṭ
cheroot in Tamil
- cigar
- சுருட்டு curuṭṭu
cheroot in Bengali
- cigar
- চুরুট curuṭ
cheroot in Telugu
- cigar
- చుట్ట cuṭṭa
More languagesFewer languages
- cheroot in Malayalam
- ചുരുട്ട് curuṭṭŭ
- cheroot in Kannada
- ಚುರುಟು curuṭu
- cheroot in Punjabi
- ਚੁਰਟ curaṭ
- cheroot in Sinhala
- සුරුට්ටුව suruṭṭuwa
- cheroot in Nepali
- चुरोट curoṭ
- cheroot in Indonesian
- cerutu
- cheroot in Thai
- บุหรี่พม่า bù-rìi-pá-mâa
- cheroot in Myanmar
- ဆေးပေါ့လိပ် hce:pau.lip, ဆေးပြင်းလိပ် hce:prang:lip
Examples of cheroot in a sentence
- However fragrant the smokers themselves may consider cheroots, those who use hookahs, hold them to be not only vulgar, but intolerable!1810, Thomas Williamson, The East India Vade-Mecum, volume I, London: Black, Parry & Kingsbury, page 499:
- It was after nine now, and the room, scented with the acrid smoke of Westfield's cheroot, was stifling hot.1934, George Orwell, chapter 2, in Burmese Days:
- In distinguished despair he lighted a cheroot, and for Aaron Gadd that was no trivial gesture.1948, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 5, in The God-Seeker, New York: Popular Library, page 29:
Forms of cheroot
| plural | cheroots |
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Origin of cheroot
Probably from Portuguese charuto (“cigar”), from Tamil சுருட்டு (curuṭṭu, “roll (of tobacco)”).
Words formed from cheroot
Words that rhyme with cheroot
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- cute
- moot
- overshoot
- recruit
- salute
- volute
- dispute
- impute
- pollute
- scoot
- snoot
- substitute
- chute
- depute
- dilute
- hoot
- loot
- pursuit
- reboot
- scute
- uproot
- Beirut
- cahoot
- Clute
- convolute
- lute
- zoot
- ablute
- Aleut
- argute
- astute
- beaut
- bruit
- compute
- coot
- doot
- en route
- glout
- jute
- minute
- newt
- poot
- refute
- repute
- resolute
- 'tute
- angel lute
- butte
Questions about cheroot
- What does cheroot mean?
- Cheroot means a cigar with square-cut ends.
- What is cheroot in Hindi?
- Cheroot in Hindi is चुरुट (curuṭ). See Cheroot meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use cheroot in a sentence?
- However fragrant the smokers themselves may consider cheroots, those who use hookahs, hold them to be not only vulgar, but intolerable!
- What part of speech is cheroot?
- Cheroot is a noun.
- How do you pronounce cheroot?
- Cheroot is pronounced /ʃəˈɹuːt/.
- What is the plural of cheroot?
- The plural of cheroot is cheroots.
Words near cheroot in the dictionary
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