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Definition of 'hookah'Alternative forms
* hukkah
* hooka
Noun
( en-noun)
A pipe with a long flexible tube that draws the smoke through water, traditionally used for smoking tobacco, which is often flavored.
* 1831 , The Mirror of Literature, Amusement and Instruction :
- 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.
* 1954 , Alexander Alderson, The Subtle Minotaur , chapter 18:
- The lounge was furnished in old English oak and big Knole settees. There were rugs from Tabriz and Kerman on the highly polished floor. A table lamp was fashioned from a silver Egyptian hookah .
* 1960 , , To Kill a Mockingbird , chapter 9:
- When Uncle Jack caught me, he kept me laughing about a preacher who hated going to church so much that every day he stood at his gate in his dressing-gown, smoking a hookah and delivering five-minute sermons to any passers-by who desired spiritual comfort.
Synonyms
* waterpipe
* hubble-bubble
* hubbly bubbly
* narghile
* shisha
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