hookah, narghile, nargileh, sheesha, shisha, chicha, calean, kalian, water pipe, hubble-bubble, hubbly-bubbly
(noun) 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”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
sheesha (countable and uncountable, plural sheeshas)
Alternative spelling of shisha
Source: Wiktionary
27 November 2024
(adjective) causing or able to cause nausea; “a nauseating smell”; “nauseous offal”; “a sickening stench”
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
