Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An Eastern tobacco-pipe in which the smoke passes through water before reaching the lips, the water being contained in a receptacle originally of cocoanut, now often of glass, porcelain, or metal. (Compare
sheesheh .) The stem is a long flexible tube, often called a snake. Seekalian .
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- noun A large Oriental
tobacco pipe wherein the smoke is drawn through water to filter and cool it.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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"The narghile is the peace pipe of the Middle East."
West Meets East 2007
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Some of the Egyptians use a form of hookah called the narghile or nargeeleh -- so named because the water is contained in the shell of a cocoanut of which the Arabic name is nargeeleh.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce E. R. Billings
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{2} The narghile is a water-pipe upon the plan of the hookah, but more gracefully fashioned; the smoke is drawn by a very long flexible tube, that winds its snake-like way from the vase to the lips of the beatified smoker.
Eothen, or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East Alexander William Kinglake 1850
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2 The narghile is a water-pipe upon the plan of the hookah, but more gracefully fashioned; the smoke is drawn by a very long flexible tube, that winds its snake-like way from the vase to the lips of the beatified smoker.
Eothen 2003
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"It is a fallacy that smoking the narghile is a safer alternative to smoking.
IOL: News 2008
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Since, according to the bong owner, the bong was actually an antique Tunisian narghile originating from the estate of the deceased actor Van Heflin ( "Shane"), Brown University wrote her a check in the amount of the lost item's estimated value: $500.
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A bubbling sound from within made me look up, and I watched a refilled narghile being set down amid a circle of men.
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Just last month my 15-year-old son, Daniel, mentioned that some of his friends were smoking hookahs (also known as shisha, narghile, goza, and hubble bubble).
The hook in hookahs 2008
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Just last month my 15-year-old son, Daniel, mentioned that some of his friends were smoking hookahs also known as shisha, narghile, goza, and hubble bubble.
The hook in hookahs 2008
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Chaouachi believes the narghile can introduce Western youth to Arab culture and "teach a lot in these troubled times."
West Meets East 2007
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October 18, 2007
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October 18, 2007
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October 18, 2007
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October 18, 2007
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October 18, 2007
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October 18, 2007
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October 19, 2007
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October 19, 2007
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October 19, 2007
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October 19, 2007
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October 19, 2007
vendingmachine commented on the word narghile
The narghile is a water-pipe upon the plan of the hookah, but more gracefully fashioned; the smoke is drawn by a very long flexible tube, that winds its snake-like way from the vase to the lips of the beatified smoker.
January 21, 2022