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stogy

WordNet
  1. (n) stogy
    a cheap cigar
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Stogy
    A kind of cheap, but not necessary inferior, cigar made in the form of a cylindrical roll.
  2. Stogy
    A stout, coarse boot or shoe; a brogan.
  3. Stogy
    heavy; coarse; clumsy.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. stogy
    Rough; coarse; heavy: as, stogy shoes; a stogy cigar.
  2. (n) stogy
    A rough, heavy shoe.
  3. (n) stogy
    A long, coarse cigar.
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary Etym. uncertain. Cf. Stocky

Usage in the news

Dusting Off the Stogie's Stodgy Image. online.wsj.com

Barking up the wrong stogie. dallasobserver.com

Dusting Off the Stogie's Stodgy Image. online.wsj.com

Cuban stogie could be too hot for Thompson. sptimes.com

When you first hear about the Stogie Vise , you think it could be anything. cigaraficionado.com

But if you're a cigar novice, the Cigars Magazine website offers a few other helpful tips to help you choose a decent stogie. ach.com

And a Red Indian Stogies "3 For 5" cigar tin (for 50 cigars ), made by the Meekin Can Co. A Rock-Ola jukebox, Commando Model 1420, one of the most dramatic and colorful of all the jukeboxes ever produced, hammered for $20,650. antiquetrader.com

Magnum 's has cigar aficionados on staff who will walk you through the mind-numbingly huge menu to help you choose the perfect stogie. phoenixnewtimes.com

NEW YORK – The proliferation of tablets, smartphones and Ultrabooks might put forth the idea that the stogy, old desktop has been put out to pasture, but the truth is bit different. twice.com

Super stogie sets cigar world alight. cnn.com

It's being hailed as the finest cigar ever to come out of Cuba, and it's about to go on sale: Experts warn huge demand for the Cohiba Behike could create a lucrative black market in these sought-after stogies. cnn.com

If cancer is the enemy , so are those stogies. tcpalm.com

Usage in literature

I gave Stogie a note for Mrs. Klopton, and with my dinner clothes there came back the gold bag, wrapped in tissue paper. "The Man in Lower Ten" by Mary Roberts Rinehart

For every chapter he lit a new stogy, puffing furiously. "Waifs and Strays" by O. Henry

The cigar-makers and the stogie-makers have also long been at swords' points. "The Armies of Labor" by Samuel P. Orth

After a while I became satiated of these, and I searched for something else, The Pittsburg stogy was recommended to me. "Mark Twain's Speeches" by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

Dr. Ed, who had only stopped to bite off the end of a stogie to hold in his cheek, picked up his book in a hurry, and eyed the invalid over it. "K" by Mary Roberts Rinehart

The air of the library, blue with the smoke of countless stogies, stifled and suffocated him. "Tutt and Mr. Tutt" by Arthur Train

His jaws closed tight on the stump of the stogie. "Where the Trail Divides" by Will Lillibridge

And could I offer you a stogy? "By Advice of Counsel" by Arthur Train

The old man grunted, thrust his hands into his pockets, and drew deeply at his stogie. "Man to Man" by Jackson Gregory

What kind of a stogie is it, Mr. Williams? "The White Christmas and other Merry Christmas Plays" by Walter Ben Hare

Usage in poetry
As hooded Eve behind her rosy Bars
Her soft Kinoon betinkled to the Stars,
Again to the Tobacconist's I came
And stood among the Stogies and Cigars.
After a momentary Silence spake
A Stogie of a bileful Pittsburg make;
"The One who puffs my Wrappings to the End
Will never ask my Memory to awake."