There seems to be no evidence of a connection with the American slang term for a ‘long, slender, roughly made cigar or cheroot’. This is first attested in OED in 1873 by ‘J Morris’ Wanderings of a Vagabond.
There seems to be no evidence of a connection with the American slang term for a ‘long, slender, roughly made cigar or cheroot’. This is first attested in OED in 1873 by ‘J Morris’ Wanderings of a Vagabond. |