different between cigarette vs smoko

English

Alternative forms

• cigaret (US spelling, sometimes)

Etymology

Borrowed from French cigarette, from cigare, from Spanish cigarro + diminutive suffix -ette

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?.??.??t/, /s?.?????t/
• Rhymes: -?t
• Hyphenation: cig?a?rette

Noun

cigarette (plural cigarettes)

1. Tobacco or other substances, in a thin roll wrapped with paper, intended to be smoked.
   • 2008, Thomas A. Liuzzo, One Last Cigarette: Memoirs of a 5-pack-a-day Smoker!, AuthorHouse (?ISBN), page 20:

     Grandma has an occasional cigarette, as well as Uncle Jimmy and Aunt Julie, and our kids give them crap about it.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:cigarette

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Hindi: ?????? (sigre?)
• ? Urdu: ??????
• ? Welsh: sigarét

Translations

Verb

cigarette (third-person singular simple present cigarettes, present participle cigaretting, simple past and past participle cigaretted)

1. (slang, rare) To give someone a cigarette, and/or to light one for them.

   Could someone cigarette me?

See also

• cigar
• cigarillo
• smoke

French

Etymology

From cigare +? -ette.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /si.?a.??t/

Noun

cigarette f (plural cigarettes)

1. cigarette

Synonyms

• clope (colloquial)

Derived terms

• cigarette électronique

Descendants

• ? Danish: cigaret
• ? Dutch: sigaret
• ? English: cigarette
• ? German: Zigarette
• Sicilian: sicaretta

Further reading

• “cigarette” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Alternative forms

• smoke-o
• smoke-oh

Etymology

From smoke +? -o.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: sm?k??, IPA^(key): /?sm??k??/
• Rhymes: -??k??

Noun

smoko (plural smokos)

1. (colloquial, Australia, New Zealand and nautical) A cigarette break from work or military duty; a brief cessation of work to have a smoke, or (more generally) to take a small rest, snack etc. [from 19th c.]
   • 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber 2003, p. 516:

     We saw the innards of a submarine, and afterwards, at smoke-oh, I entertained the men with my story of the bagman's battle with John Oliver O'Dowd.

   • 2005, Lexie Simmons, Darrell Lewis, Kajirri, the Bush Missus, Central Queensland University Press, page 16,

     This area was the general meeting place for all the Aboriginal workers who had some time to spare. The house girls took their smoko or lunch there and were soon joined by everyone else who?d stopped work after the smoko or lunchtime bell.

   • 2007, Lewis Yerloburka O?Brien, Mary-Ann Gale (transcriber), And the Clock Struck Thirteen: The Life and Thoughts of Kaurna Elder Uncle Lewis Yerloburka O?Brien as told to Mary-Ann Gale, page 163,

     One day Ox-head came up to us during smoko to have a yarn and to help himself to some lollies another bloke, Seth, had bought.

   • 2008, Ann Jones, Put the Billy On, Glass House Books, Australia, page 85,

     ‘You chaps should have a camp this afternoon,’ Dad suggested as they finished their meal. ‘You must be tired out. There?s a couple of stretchers upstairs along the verandah. Have a camp on those and we?ll wake you for smoko,’ and the party dispersed until the bell was rung.

Translations

Anagrams

• Mooks, mokos, mooks

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

From English smoke.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?smo.ko/

Noun

smoko

1. smoke

Verb

smoko

1. to smoke, to produce smoke
2. (of tobacco and tobacco products) to smoke

Derived terms

• smokofisi