Hookah

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Hookah \Hook"ah\ (h[oo^]k"[.a]), n. [Per. or Ar. huqqa a round
     box or casket, a bottle through which the fumes pass when
     smoking tobacco.]
     A pipe with a long, flexible stem, so arranged that the smoke
     is cooled by being made to pass through water. Also called
     {narghile} and {water pipe}. The {hubble-bubble} is a simple


     form of this device.
     [1913 Webster +PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  hookah
       n : an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected
           to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing
           through water; "a bipolar world with the hookah and
           Turkish coffee versus hamburgers and Coca Cola" [syn: {narghile},
            {nargileh}, {sheesha}, {shisha}, {chicha}, {calean}, {kalian},
            {water pipe}, {hubble-bubble}, {hubbly-bubbly}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  19 Moby Thesaurus words for "hookah":
     Missouri meerschaum, briar, briar pipe, calean, calumet,
     churchwarden, clay, corncob, corncob pipe, hubble-bubble,
     meerschaum, nargileh, peace pipe, pipe, pipe cleaner, pipe rack,
     tobacco pipe, tobacco pouch, water pipe