hookah

Everyday

A tall pipe for smoking tobacco, in which the smoke passes through water in a jar before being breathed in through a long tube; also called a water pipe or shisha. tree →

In the lessons

In Alice in Wonderland, the blue Caterpillar sits on a mushroom smoking a long hookah and asks Alice «Who are you?». Hookahs come from India, Persia and the Middle East. Health and safety: smoking a hookah is not safe — it is as harmful as smoking cigarettes and it is illegal to sell tobacco to children.

Examples

• The Caterpillar was quietly smoking a long hookah. tree →
• «Who are you?» said the Caterpillar, taking the hookah out of its mouth. tree →
• Hookah smoke is harmful to your lungs. tree →
• In the old picture, the man sat with his hookah. tree →
• Shisha is another name for hookah smoking. tree →
• The Caterpillar's hookah stood on top of the mushroom. tree →

Note

Countable. Sounds like «HOOK-ah». Safety: hookah smoking is not safer than cigarettes.