hookah

hookah
a pipe with a long flexible tube that draws the smoke through water. Originally invented in India, it gained most popularity in the Arab world. It is traditionally used for smoking tobacco, which is often flavored.

In India, the lower orders use a hookah or hubble bubble, which is made of a cocoa-nut shell well cleaned out, having a hole through the soft eye of the shell, and another on the opposite side, a little lower down, the first of which is used for the chauffoir, and the other to suck or draw the smoke from.

Syn: hubble-bubble, hubbly, hubbly-bubbly, hubbly bubbly, narghile, nargila, sheesha, shisha

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  • hookah — also hooka, 1763, from Arabic huqqah small box, vessel (through which the smoke is drawn), extended in Urdu to the whole apparatus …   Etymology dictionary

  • hookah — ► NOUN ▪ an oriental tobacco pipe with a long, flexible tube which draws the smoke through water in a bowl. ORIGIN Urdu, from Arabic, casket, jar …   English terms dictionary

  • hookah — or hooka [hook′ə, ho͞o′kə] n. [Ar ḥuqqa, pipe for smoking, vase] a kind of water pipe associated with the Middle East, with a long flexible tube for drawing the smoke through water in a vase or bowl and cooling it …   English World dictionary

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  • hookah — UK [ˈhʊkə] / US noun [countable] Word forms hookah : singular hookah plural hookahs a pipe for smoking tobacco or drugs that has a long tube and pulls the smoke through a small container of water …   English dictionary

  • Hookah lounge — The hookah lounge (also called a shisha bar or den, especially in Britain and parts of Canada, or a hookah bar) is an establishment where patrons share shisha (flavored tobacco) from a communal hookah or nargile which is placed at each table.… …   Wikipedia

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  • hookah — noun Etymology: Arabic ḥuqqa bottle of a water pipe Date: 1763 water pipe 2 …   New Collegiate Dictionary

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