a. and sb. U.S. Also stoga, stoggie. [Orig. stoga, short for Conestoga, the name of a town in Pennsylvania, used attrib. in Conestoga wagon (see Thornton, American Glossary).
It is alleged that stoga boots and stoga cigars were so called because they were used by the ‘stoga drivers,’ i.e., the drivers of the Conestoga wagons plying between Wheeling and Pittsburgh.]
A. adj. The distinctive epithet a. of a rough heavy kind of boots or shoes; b. of a long, slender, roughly made kind of cigar or cheroot.
a. 1847. Joel Palmer, Jrnl., 117. (Thornton, Amer. Gloss.). [I bought] a pair of stoga shoes, made in one of the eastern states.
1859. Alice Cary, Pict. Country Life, 102. I want for you to make me a pair of tip-top stogy boots.
1876. Davis, Polaris Exp., App. 669. 1 case men’s stoga boots.
1892. Gunter, Miss Dividends (1893), 185. Stoggie boots aren’t quite as nice as patent-leathers.
B. sb. a. A ‘stogy’ boot. b. A ‘stogy’ cigar.
a. 1853. Putnam’s Mag., July, 31. Boot and shoe, pump and stoga, coming to that [sc. the gutter] at last.
1892. Dialect Notes (Amer. Dial. Soc.), I. 229. Kentucky Words…. Conostogas:… brogans. (In Michigan ‘stogies.’)
1908. Gunter, Prince Karl, VII. 296. Rawdon cried: ‘We’ve heard enough of you!’ and with his own stogie kicked out the soap box from under the little desperado’s feet.
b. 1892. Dialect Notes (Amer. Dial. Soc.), I. 237. Notes from Missouri…. Stogies,… cheap cigars.
1897. Kipling, Captains Courageous, i. 6. ‘It would take more’n this to keel me over,’ he said, ignorant that he was lighting that terrible article, a Wheeling ‘stogie.’
1902. Daily Record, 21 July, 2. Stogies, Tobies and other cigars of a cheroot style.
