Abbreviations

[Big Al]

Not a complaint really but just a whinge. Many of the more knowledgeable on here just provide an abbreviation for the cigar they are smoking etc. And I surely can't be the only one who hasn't the faintest idea of what many of these abbreviations stand for.

I prefer to write out in full what I smoke because I know that there must surely be some people who like me are simply not au fait with abbreviations. This is my personal preference and I do not expect others to follow. But is there a KEY available on the site where people can turn?

[Deano]

No, but it's perfect for the Wiki...

[Deano]

In fact it's already started: http://www.ukcigarforums.com/ukcfwik...x.php/Glossary

[spacemonkey_no9]

Added a bit more, will keep going when I have a minute as I am as much to blame for using abbreviations as anyone.

[Deano]

Nice one

[Big Al]

Added a bit more, will keep going when I have a minute as I am as much to blame for using abbreviations as anyone.

Ah, now I know what a RASS is! Thank you spacemonkey!

[misterbulgarin]

I would imagine our abbreviations could alienate some people

more of them should rtfm

[Big Al]

I would imagine our abbreviations could alienate some people

more of them should rtfm

Which is my take misterbulgarin. But I don't want to be a PC "grammar police" twerp. It is a matter of personal taste but for the Newbie abbreviations are just Greek. So long as there is a place to go where people can look up what these things mean all is well. For my part, I will make it my policy to write out in full the name and type of cigar.

[Stogiedog]

Just a simple thought from a humble man if we were to right out in full Ramon Allones Small Club Corona (RASCC) then from that point on in the text a abbreiviation could be used?

[daverave999]

Just a simple thought from a humble man if we were to right out in full Ramon Allones Small Club Corona (RASCC) then from that point on in the text a abbreiviation could be used?

Well it's in the Wiki now...

[Stogiedog]

[cbob]

IKWYM
I'm a FOG who smokes some NCs but really prefers my BBFs, SD4s, RAGs, and LGC MD1s, especially in the company of my BOTL while sipping a fine AB.
IMHO we do get carried away with our abbreviations.

TTFN

CB

[whisky77]

TFT

TFT.CBOB.

[misterbulgarin]

k ppl stfu

[cohibaIV]

Can someone please add to WIKI???

"A" - A 24cm double corona made by Montecristo
Banda Volcano - A fast burning tobacco that is used as a binder
Belicoso - A shell shaped cigar made by Bolivar
Belvedere - A corona by Partagas
Binder - A large leaf layer between the filler tobacco and the wrapper
Blender - A device used to blend the leaves prior to rolling a the cigar
Body - The part of the cigar held in the hand that is lit
Bombone - A cigar made by La Escepcion de Jose Gener
Box - Cigar boxes are generally made of Cedar wood
Bunch - The filler part of the cigar which is enclosed in the binder
Caballeria - A unit of measure used in Cuban plantations
Canon - A rolled cigar with an unfinished head and foot
Capa - Wrapper plant
Capadura - The second harvest of the year
Capote - Binder
Casa de tobacco - A wooden hut used to dry the tobacco leaves on
Cedros - A cigar made by Romeo y Julieta
Centro Fin - The 5th part of the tobacco plant
Chaveta - A sharp tool used by cigar makers to cut and roll the cigars
Chico - A slim cigar (60-120mm long)
Churchill - (Double corona). Cigar measuring 17-18cm
Cigar Cellar - A room sized humidor
Cigar Cutter - A guillotine used to cut closed cigar heads
Cigarillo - A cigar made from shredded tobacco leaves
Cigarito - A cigarette with a tobacco leaf wrapper
Clarissimo -- The lightest colour of tobacco leaf
Claro - A light shaded Havana coloured leaf
Cohiba - Term used by the natives of the Caribbean Islands for tobacco
Colorado - A reddy-brown coloured tobacco leaf
Colorado claro - A light brown coloured tobacco leaf
Connaisseur - A very high quality range of cigar made by Partagas
Convicale - Cigar made by Rafael Gonzalez
Coprova - French importer of Cuban cigars
Corojo - A wrapper plant
Corona - A straight-bodied cigar with a closed rounded head
Corona gigante - Double corona by Bolivar
Corona grande - An alternative term for a double corona
Corona major - Upmann tubo
Corona senior - Partagas tubo
Criollo de sol - The plant used as a binder
Cubatabaco - A state controlled company that manufactures Cuban cigars
Culebras -- Small cigars made from three individual interwoven cigars
Curing - The method used to dry tobacco leaves
Degado - The smallest cigar (4cm) ever manufactured
Demi-Tasse - A cigar measuring 7-10cm
Diadema - Cigar by Punch
Doctor - Plantation managers in Cuba
Dom Perignon - The largest Davidoff cigar
Double claro - A very light coloured tobacco leaf
Double corona - A corona cigar measuring 17-24cm in length
Dulcinea - Cigar by Sancho Panza
Epicure - Very high quality cigars by Hoyo de Monterrey
Escogida - A festival held after the leaves are chosen and graded
Exhausting - A cigar that has suffered heat loss after fermentation
Fabrica - Factory where cigars are rolled
Fabuloso - The biggest cigar
Filler - The leaves that form the inner part of a cigar
Finca - A Cuban firm whose sole purpose is to produce tobacco
Foot - The end part of a cigar that is lit
Fumar crudo - Holding a cigar in the mouth before lighting
Gavilla - A sheaf of tobacco leaves
Guillotine - A straight bladed cigar cutter
Half corona - Short corona, measuring 7-8cm
Half-wheel - Another term for a bundle
Havana - A Cuban rolled cigar
Havana club - A giant double corona that was made by Dunhill
Hecho a mano -- Hand made
Head -The end of the cigar that is held in the mouth
Humidor - A hermetically sealed wooden box, used for storing cigars
Immenso - A non-standard very large cigar
Jaino - Cigar made by El Rey del Mundo
Koh-I-Noor - A cigar measuring 1.70m made in Cuba by Henry Clay
Lancero - The largest cigar made by Cohiba
Lancet - Tool used to pierce the closed head of a cigar
Leaf - The smokeable part of a tobacco plant
Legero - A fast burning filler tobacco
Libre de pied - (?free feet?). The two leaves at the bottom of a tobacco plant
Longo - Cigar made by Hoyo de Monterrey
Lonsdale - A corona measuring 150-170mm
Lunch Club - Corona by El Rey del Mundo
Lusitanias - A double corona made by Partagas
Machine rolled cigar - A cigar that is mechanically rolled as opposed to hand rolled
Maduro - A browny black coloured cigar leaf
Maduro colorado - A brown coloured tobacco leaf
Magnum - A large potbellied cigar
Matt cigar - A cigar with its wrapper coated in a fine film of tobacco
Matting - Coating cigarillos with a layer of tobacco powder
Medi tempo - Average burning speed for filler tobacco
Microscopio - Non standard size of small cigar
Mille Fleurs - Cigar by Ramon Allones
Minuto - Cigar by La Gloria Cubana
Moho azul - A disease that decimated the Cuban harvest in 1981
Moistening - Moistening solutions for the second fermentation of tobacco
Montecarlo - Pantella by Por Larrnaga
Oscuro - The darkest colour of tobacco leaf
Outer envelope - Another term for wrapper
Palmita - Cigar by Gispert
Pantela - A cigar with a straight slim body around 120-130mm
Perfecto - Cigar with a cylindrical body narrowing at the foot
Primero Ligero - The fifth stage of the tobacco plant
Puro - Spanish word for Cigar
Pyrmidos - Shell shaped cigar
Quijote -- Cigar by Sancho Panza
Regalia - Another term for wrapper
Ring- The printed paper ring placed around a cigar near the head
Roller - A cigar maker who rolls cigar
Sancho - -Cigar by Sancho Panza
San Juan y Martinez - A famous village in the Cuban province of Pinar del Rio
Seal of authenticity - A band placed on boxes of Havanas to guarantee origin
Seco - A slow burning filler tobacco
Semillero - A tobacco plant nursery
Small corona - A corona measuring 9-12cm in length
Stripper -- A female worker who removes the central veins of the leaves
Tobaco- Spanish word for tobacco
Tabla de torcer - The working surface of the roller
Tapado - A field of tobacco
Tercio - A sheaf of tobacco leaves during their treatment at the factory
Torcedo - A large potbellied cigar
Toscani - A very strong Italian cigar
Tripa - Filler plant
Uno y medio - A single leaf of tobacco plant on the third level of the plant
Vega - A growing plot
Veguero - Someone who plants the tobacco
Vista - -A decorative image placed on the lid of cigar boxes
Vitole - A wooden board used to grade cigars
Vitolphilia - The art of collecting Cigar rings
Volado - A fast burning tobacco filler
Wilde - A term used for bunch-like cigarillos
Wrapper - Outer leaf of a cigar