hookah

an Eastern smoking pipe designed with a long tube passing through an urn of water that cools the smoke as it is drawn through. Also called hubble-bubble, narghile


I just came across this word last week while reading The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland to my son. Then two nights ago it appeared again, this time in the New York Times article, Collegians Smoking Hookahs … Filled with Tobacco.

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