cigarillo

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a small, narrow cigar, usually only somewhat larger than a cigarette and wrapped in tobacco leaf or tobacco-based material rather than ordinary paper

   He chose a short cigarillo rather than a full-sized cigar.

Borrowed from Spanish cigarrillo, a diminutive of cigarro, 'cigar,' formed with -illo. Cigarillo entered English in the early nineteenth century. Cigarito, from the alternative Spanish diminutive cigarrito, has been used in English for the same small tobacco roll but is treated as a variant of cigarillo.

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