Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A Turkish tobacco pipe with a long stem and a red clay bowl.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A Turkish pipe having a stiff stem 4 or 5 feet long, usually wound with silk or other thread, which is sometimes wet to cool the smoke by evaporation. The mouthpiece is usually of amber, but sometimes of glass; the bowl usually of baked clay, narrow at the bottom and wide at the top, like the flower of the morning-glory. It is customary in smoking to rest the bowl upon a small tray of wood or brass.
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Etymologies
- Turkish dialectal çibuk, from çubuk, shoot, twig, staff, from Old Turkic chubuq, chībīq, diminutive of chīp, chīb-, branch.
Examples
“Tyeglev pondered, heaved a deep sigh and dropping his chibouk out of his hand, informed me that that day was a very important one for him.”
“Imagine a little shaven head with thick overhanging eyebrows, a beak of a nose, long gray mustaches, and a wide mouth with a long cherry-wood chibouk sticking out of it.”
“This figure walked straddling its legs and shuffling with its slippers, spoke without taking the chibouk out of its mouth, and behaved with truly”
““Truly,” I thought to myself in my dejection and disillusionment, “I cannot be quite grown-up if I cannot smoke as other fellows do, and should be fated never to hold a chibouk between my first and second fingers, or to inhale and puff smoke through a flaxen moustache!””
“They next went to see Rocjean, in the Corso; they found him in a bournouse, with a fez on his head, a long chibouk in his mouth, smoking away, extended at full length on a settee, which he insisted was a divan.”
“Here the attendants do everything for the visitor; cut up his _pirog_ (meat, or fish patty), so that he may eat it with his fork; pour out his tea, fill his _chibouk_, and even bring it to him ready lighted.”
“I chose the chibouk, and as the stem of mine was studded with precious stones of enormous value, I thought I should enjoy it the more; but the tobacco being highly flavored with some sort of herbs, my smoke fell far short of my anticipations.”
“I increased the beauty and conveniences of my dress; I bought a handsome amber-headed chibouk; I girded my waist with a lively-coloured shawl; my tobacco pouch was made of silk, covered with spangles; my slippers were of bright yellow, and I treated myself to a glittering dagger.”
“He received me in his usual quiet manner; and when I had related all my misfortunes, he puffed out a long volume of smoke from his never-failing chibouk, and exclaimed, with a deep sigh, _Allah kerim!”
“He performs his daily labor, makes his prostrations, smokes his chibouk, and lives oblivious of care.”
The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
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