cigarette holder

See also: cigarette-holder

English

A person holding a cigarette holder which has a lit cigarette inside.

Alternative forms

• cigarette-holder

Noun

cigarette holder (plural cigarette holders)

1. A tube-like device that holds a cigarette and through which the cigarette is smoked.
   • 1943, Health Yearbook 1954, →ISBN, page 145:

     The cigarette holder that uses a plastic cylinder filled with granules of silica reduced the nicotine content by 14 percent and the tar content by 21 percent.

   • 1961, Joseph Heller, Catch-22:

     He displayed the cigarette holder grandly on every occasion and had learned to manipulate it adroitly. Unwittingly, he had discovered deep within himself a fertile aptitude for smoking with a cigarette holder.

   • 2007, Rayner W. Hesse, Jewelrymaking Through History: An Encyclopedia, →ISBN, page 53:

     Cigarette holders were considered an essential part of women's fashion from the early to the mid-twentieth century and are sometimes of quite simple design; or they may be incredibly ornate, with gemstone or mother-of-pearl inlays.

Translations

a device used to hold a cigarette

• Estonian: pits
• Finnish: imuke (fi)
• German: Zigarettenspitze (de)
• Hungarian: szipka (hu)
• Italian: bocchino (it) m
• Mongolian: соруул (mn) (soruul)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: munnstykke n

  Nynorsk: munnstykke n

• Polish: cygarniczka, fifka (pl) f, lufka f
• Russian: мундшту́к (ru) (mundštúk)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: муштѝкла f, му̏ндштик m

  Roman: muštìkla (sh) f, mȕndštik (sh) m

• Swedish: cigarettmunstycke n
• Turkish: ağızlık (tr)

See also

• roach clip