different between cigarette vs spliff

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

• spiff
• spleef
• splif

Etymology

From Jamaican Creole, possibly a blend of split, referring to the ready-made wrap + whiff, referring to the smell of the smoke.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /spl?f/
• Rhymes: -?f

Noun

spliff (plural spliffs)

1. (slang, Jamaican, Britain) A cannabis cigarette.
   • 1992, Victor Headley, Yardie, New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1993, p. 167,^[2]

     Pablo switched off the wipers and struck a match to light the spliff he had just finished building.

   • 2001, Niall Griffiths, Sheepshagger, New York: Thomas Dunne, 2002, p. 104,^[3]

     Danny takes another toke on the spliff and then passes it over to Griff, who accepts it and draws deep on it and then points with the lit end across the room at Gwenno like some strange weatherman indicating a pocket of high pressure.

   • 2016, Kei Miller, Augustown, New York: Pantheon, Chapter 1, pp. 14-15,

     “Well, well, well,” Ma Taffy says, sitting back and returning the spliff to her mouth. She exhales a cloud of ganja that envelops herself and the boy.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:marijuana cigarette

Translations

References

Jamaican Creole

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?spl?f/
• Hyphenation: spliff

Noun

spliff (plural: spliff dem, quantified: spliff)

1. A conical marijuana cigarette; a joint; a spliff

Further reading

• Richard Allsopp (main editor), Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage, 2003 (reprint by The University of the West Indies Press, originally 1996 by Oxford University Press), ISBN 9789766401450 (originally ISBN-10: 976-640-145-4), page 524