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Stogie - 3 dictionary results

sto⋅gy

[stoh-gee]
–noun, plural -gies.
1. a long, slender, roughly made, inexpensive cigar.
2. a coarse, heavy boot or shoe.
Also, stogie.


Origin:
1840–50, Americanism; stog(a) (short for Conestoga, town in Pennsylvania) + -y 2
sto·gy or sto·gie   (stō'gē)   
n.   pl. sto·gies
  1. A cheap cigar.
  2. A roughly made heavy shoe or boot.

[After Conestoga, a village of southeast Pennsylvania.]

stogie 
1847, "rough, heavy kind of shoe," later "long, cheap cigar" (1873), both shortened from Conestoga, rural region near Lancaster, Pennsylvania; both items so-called because favored by drivers of the Conestoga style of covered wagons first made there.
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