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• beedie, bidi

語源

Borrowed from Hindi बीड़ी (bīṛī).

発音

名詞

beedi (plural beedis)

1. A thin, often flavored, Indian cigarette made of tobacco wrapped in a tendu leaf.
   • 1990, Charles Bukowski, “letter, 15 September”, in Abel Debritto, editor, On Writing, Canongate, published 2016, page 198:

     I always write with the music on and a bottle of good red. And smoke Mangalore Ganesh beedies.

   • 2002, People Under the Stairs, “The Suite For Beaver Part 2”, in O.S.T.:

     I walk in, talking to friendly faces in my aces / Drinking beer, smoking beedis in the back where the bass is

   • 2022 June 6, Hannah Ellis-Petersen, quoting Leena Manimekalai, “Indian director receives threats over film poster of goddess with Pride flag”, in The Guardian‎, Guardian Media Group, retrieved 6 June 2022:

     She said: “In rural Tamil Nadu, the state I come from, Kaali is believed to be a pagan goddess. She eats meat cooked in goat’s blood, drinks arrack, smokes beedi [cigarettes] and dances wild … that is the Kaali I had embodied for the film.”