cigarillo
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Similar observations could be made about words like starlet or cigarillo (- illo is also a DIMSUF).
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- noun A small narrow cigar.
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- Stopping himself from further thought, Reid crushed the cigarillo beneath his boot and turned around. — Cry Mercy Cry Love
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Similar observations could be made about words like starlet or cigarillo (- illo is also a DIMSUF).
— VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIV No 1 -
Interestingly, what is true for cigarillo does not hold for cigarette.
— VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIV No 1 - Anyway, wondered Sam, starting in on a fresh cigarillo, what the hell would it have proved? — The End of the Pier
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- illo (or - illa) also appears in a number of my exemplars, for example, chinchilla, coyotillo, huajillo, mamoncillo, ocotillo, and popotillo, as well as cigarillo, based on cigar, which is the Spanish version of the Mayan si'c ` tobacco '(the French diminutive suffix - ette added to cigar gives us, of course, cigarette).
— VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 3
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- Spanish cigarrillo, diminutive of cigarro, cigar; see cigar.
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/ (sĭgˌə-rĭlˈō)/
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