cheroot

== English == === Etymology === Probably from Portuguese charuto (“cigar”), from Tamil சுருட்டு (curuṭṭu, “roll (of tobacco)”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ʃəˈɹuːt/, /t͡ʃə-/ Rhymes: -uːt === Noun === cheroot (plural cheroots) A cigar with square-cut ends. 1853, The Lancet, Vol. II, The Analytical Sanitary Commission. Cigars and their Adulterations, pp. 444-445, [2] 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 sale of spurious cheroots of this kind constitutes a regular business. 1892, Rudyard Kipling, "Mandalay", in Rudyard Kipling's Verse, Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1922, [3] ’Er petticoat was yaller an’ ’er little cap was green, / An’ ’er name was Supi-yaw-lat—jes’ the same as Theebaw’s Queen, / An’ I seed her first a-smokin’ of a whackin’ white cheroot, / An’ a-wastin’ Christian kisses on an ’eathen idol’s foot: 1986, Heinrich Böll, "The Unknown Soldier" in The Casualty, translated by Leila Vennewitz, New York and London: W. Norton & Co., 1989, p. 97, I had a long Virginia cheroot between my lips, it tasted deliciously bitter and mild, while in my back the goo of pus and blood and shreds of cloth and hand-grenade splinters went on simmering away. 2012, Christopher Simon Sykes, David Hockney: the Biography, 1937-1975. A Rake's Progress, Doubleday, Chapter Ten, Hamilton offered to put them up and Hockney spent the time making a marvellous etching of him sitting in a chair holding a cheroot in his right hand. ==== Derived terms ==== exotic cheroot ==== Descendants ==== → Assamese: চুৰট (surot) → Bengali: চুরুট (curuṭ), চুরট (curoṭ)Nepali: चुरोट (curoṭ) → Hindustani: Hindi: चुरुट (curuṭ), चुरूट (curūṭ) → Odia: ଚୁରଟ୍ (curaṭ) → Punjabi: ਚੁਰਟ (curaṭ) ==== Translations ==== === References ===