nargileh n 1: 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: {hookah}, {narghile}, {nargileh}, {sheesha}, {shisha}, {chicha}, {calean}, {kalian}, {water pipe}, {hubble- bubble}, {hubbly-bubbly}]
Nargile \Nar"gile\, Nargileh \Nar"gi*leh\, n. [Per. n[=a]rgh[imac]l, prop., a cocoanut; prob. so called because first made of a cocoanut.] An apparatus for smoking tobacco. It has a long flexible tube, and the smoke is drawn through water. Also called {hoookah} and {water pipe}. Functionally similar to the {hubble-bubble}, a simplified form. [1913 Webster +PJC]