Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A cheap cigar.
- noun A roughly made heavy shoe or boot.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Rough; coarse; heavy: as, stogy shoes; a stogy cigar.
- noun A rough, heavy shoe.
- noun A long, coarse cigar.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective colloq. heavy; coarse; clumsy.
- noun A stout, coarse boot or shoe; a brogan.
- noun A kind of cheap, but not necessary inferior, cigar made in the form of a cylindrical roll.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative spelling of
stogie .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a cheap cigar
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Each of us put on a rough, heavy suit of clothing, woolen army shirt and "stogy" boots included; and into the valise we crowded a few white shirts, some under-clothing and such things.
Roughing It 1871
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"stogy" boots included; and into the valise we crowded a few white shirts, some under-clothing and such things.
Roughing It Mark Twain 1872
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"stogy" boots included; and into the valise we crowded a few white shirts, some under-clothing and such things.
Roughing It, Part 1. Mark Twain 1872
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There's an African-American in the White House, a woman Speaker of the House, an African-American Attorney General, etc., etc. For some people, this really rocks their world – they just can't handle not having a bunch of stogy old white men in charge, even though those very white men were the ones who took our country to the brink of financial collapse!
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"Steven's smoking a stogy, cap on head, like he's always been since I was a baby," said Pegg.
Simon Pegg & Nick Frost offered the Thompson Twins in Spielbergs Tintin 2008
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After all, in what country but America could one hope to see the SBC spokesman, Sarah Palin, and Michelle Bachmann putting aside their stogy "theological orthodoxy" and answering the call to follow someone from a faith they liken to Islam on a religious revival?
Eric Sapp: Open-Minded Evangelicals Answer Mormon Beck's Call for Revival 2010
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After all, in what country but America could one hope to see the SBC spokesman, Sarah Palin, and Michelle Bachmann putting aside their stogy "theological orthodoxy" and answering the call to follow someone from a faith they liken to Islam on a religious revival?
Eric Sapp: Open-Minded Evangelicals Answer Mormon Beck's Call for Revival 2010
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After all, in what country but America could one hope to see the SBC spokesman, Sarah Palin, and Michelle Bachmann putting aside their stogy "theological orthodoxy" and answering the call to follow someone from a faith they liken to Islam on a religious revival?
Eric Sapp: Open-Minded Evangelicals Answer Mormon Beck's Call for Revival 2010
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Of course you never know you look like Leonhard Euler until some stogy algebra professor comes up to you when you're an undergraduate and says, “You know, you look just like Leonhard Euler.”
Don't Forget the Sun 2009
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In the long run, though, cheap labor in Mexico was not enough to prop up a lagging, stogy industry that failed to innovate.
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