Re: cigarillo
Apud Rafael Caetano <rcaetano7@nospamyahoo.com> (sci.lang.japan) hoc legimus:
>My Genius 英和 dictionary says only 細い葉巻. I suspect this is only an
>explanation rather than a translation.
Both the Kenkyusha Readers and 中辞典 say シガリロ and explain it
as 細い葉巻き. Eijiro also has シガリーリョ.
>I've seen リトルシガー (I took a while to decipher リトル)
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/jwb/wwwjdic?9MGG%A5%EA%A5%C8%A5%EB%A5%B7%A5%AC%A1%BC expands it correctly.
>and ドライシガー on the same place. Do these terms denote different types
>of cigarillos?
>I've also seen ミニシガー and シガリロ, for instance here:
>http://csx.jp/~wrlz/cigarillo.html
For popularity, Google sayeth:
シガリロ 4,480
シガリーリョ 2
ミニシガー 407
ドライシガー 615
>So, do they all mean the same thing? Which term would a cigarillo smoker
>use? What about a non-smoker (or which term would be easier for him to
>understand)?
I'll punt for シガリロ.
>WWWJDIC has no entries for either "cigarillo" or any of the attempted
>Japanese translations above. Besides, the entry for "cigar" includes
>this example:
># 葉巻はいかが?
>Have a cigarette?
>Is 葉巻 really used for cigarrettes?
Not that I'm aware of. I'll fix that example, and add シガリロ as an entry.
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