(1) Socially, the battery-powered fag seems to inspire anything from curiosity to annoyance – as well as contempt in some proper smokers, who consider the counterfeit ciggie cowardly and naff.
(2) Free and easy Because ... British citizens are already aware that everyone in this country receives a free house, a laptop computer, a 47in flat-screen television and 40 ciggies a day from the government as standard, regardless of whether we choose to work.
(3) My daughter – with a frown you could keep a ciggie in and roots that have faded – but looking rather sharp.
(4) Much has been made of the dangers of passive smoke for non-smokers, but what about the mental health of smokers who will be forced to go ciggie cold turkey, with all the stress and insomnia that involves?
(5) The laptop reveals the air conditioning, a bookshelf, the contents of a fridge, a childhood charm, a daft hat, some ciggies she said she had given up and posters of Frank O'Hara and PJ Harvey … and her father with hair … and a Brooklyn street with the odd Scorsese-type profanity.
Tiggy
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Rozanne Colchester is 89 and lives in a Mrs Tiggy-Winkle-style cottage in deepest Gloucestershire next to her grandchildren.
(2) Such a precipitous drop means the hedgehog, celebrated in culture from Beatrix Potter's Mrs Tiggy-Winkle to Philip Larkin's poetry , is becoming an increasingly rare sight in the UK's gardens, parks and hedgerows.