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A cheroot is a small cigar with both ends cut straight across. An ordinary cigar is often closed or pointed at one end; a cheroot looks like a short, even tube of tobacco. People smoke it. The straight-cut ends are the point of the word, not just “small.” You meet cheroot more in older books, in travel writing, and in some parts of Asia than in everyday British or American chat. In a high street now, most people would just say cigar. Though actually, it is not a childish or joke word — it is simply a bit old-fashioned in many places. It is a calm, slightly smoking word, not slang.
方頭雪茄、平頭雪茄（兩端切齊的小雪茄）
組成Probably from Portuguese charuto (“cigar”), from Tamil சுருட்டு (curuṭṭu, “roll of tobacco”).
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
cherootnoun/ʃəˈɹuːt/
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A cigar with square-cut ends.
- The lowest classes of Europeans, as also of the natives, and, indeed, most of the officers of country-ships, frequently smoke cheroots, exactly corresponding with the Spanish segar, though usually made rather more bulky. However fragrant the smokers themselves may consider cheroots, those who use hookahs, hold them to be not only vulgar, but intolerable!
- 1853, The Lancet, Vol. II, The Analytical Sanitary Commission. Cigars and their Adulterations, pp. 444-445, https://books.google.ca/books?id=_ZJMAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Purchased—of a Hawker, in Whitechapel-road. ¶ These cheroots were made up of two twisted wrappers or layers of thin brown paper, while the interior consisted entirely of hay, not a particle of tobacco entering into their composition. ¶ It appears that about the neighbourhood of Whitechapel, the sale of spurious cheroots of this kind constitutes a regular business.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。