>>>>>We say "wet" as well. And we DO have cigarettes. I guess your equiv. of "fag" is a "butt" (though that too has similar connotations :-) We also say "ciggy" which I think I've heard Americans say. A butt also here usually means the "dog-end" of a ciggy, but you also say "You got a butt, ?", meaning a whole ciggy.
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>>>>It's also why you have to be careful to whom you say 'butt out'.
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>>>Wouldn't that be "out butt"? :-)
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>>Also, while I can't speak for Americans, I've never heard a Canadian who didn't want to have to move to a new neighbourhood ever use the word 'ciggy'.
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>OK OK, it must have been "cig" that I heard. But why would there be such animosity over saying "ciggy". The accepted way of bumming a smoke in England is "Gizza ciggy" ("GIve uS A")

I don't know, I guess we just don't find them quite as cute as you guys do. 'Ciggy' sounds too much like a pet.