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Water pipe   /wˈɔtər paɪp/   Listen
Water pipe

noun
1.
An oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water.  Synonyms: calean, chicha, hookah, hubble-bubble, hubbly-bubbly, kalian, narghile, nargileh, sheesha, shisha.





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"Water pipe" Quotes from Famous Books



... "Dukhn," lit. smoke, here tobacco for the Chibouk, "Timbk" or "Tumbk" being the stronger (Persian and other) variety which must be washed before smoking in the Shshah or water pipe. Tobacco is mentioned here only and is evidently inserted by some scribe: the "weed" was not introduced into the East before the end of the sixteenth century (about a hundred years after coffee), when it radically changed the ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 9 • Richard F. Burton


Words linked to "Water pipe" :   chicha, pipe, tobacco pipe


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