colloq. or slang. Also trichy. Short for TRICHINOPOLI (cigar).
1877. R. F. Burton, Sind Revisited, I. i. 7. We smoked, generally Manilla cheroots, now supplanted by foul Dindigals and fetid ‘Trichies’
1886. Yule & Burnell, Hobson-Jobson, Trichies or Tritchies, the familiar name of the cheroots made at Trichinopoly; long, and rudely made, with a straw inserted at the end for the mouth.
1889. Blackw. Mag., Aug., 238. I had smoked a trichy whilst lazily watching the fleecy clouds.
