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sto⋅gy

  [stoh-gee]
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–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
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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.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
stog(ie) [ˈstogi]

  1. n.
    a cigar. : Then this guy pulls out a big stogie and starts to smoke it right there in the restaurant.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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