smoke
see also: Smoke
Pronunciation Etymology 1
Smoke
Proper noun Translations Proper noun
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see also: Smoke
Pronunciation Etymology 1
From Middle English smoke, from Old English smoca, probably a derivative of the verb (see below).
Nounsmoke
- (uncountable) The visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material.
- (colloquial, countable) A cigarette.
- 2019, Idles, "Never Fight a Man With a Perm", Joy as an Act of Resistance.
- I said I've got a penchant for smokes and kicking douches in the mouth / Sadly for you my last cigarette's gone out
- Can I bum a smoke off you?; I need to go buy some smokes.
- 2019, Idles, "Never Fight a Man With a Perm", Joy as an Act of Resistance.
- (colloquial, uncountable) Anything to smoke (e.g. cigarettes, marijuana, etc.)
- Hey, you got some smoke?
- (colloquial, countable, never plural) An instance of smoking a cigarette, cigar, etc.; the duration of this act.
- 1884 December 9, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter VII, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer's Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC ↗:
- I lit a pipe and had a good long smoke, and went on watching.
- I'm going out for a smoke.
- (uncountable, figuratively) A fleeting illusion; something insubstantial, evanescent, unreal, transitory, or without result.
- The excitement behind the new candidate proved to be smoke.
- 1974, John le Carré, chapter 6, in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, New York: Knopf, page 44:
- I fed her a lot of smoke about a sheep station outside Adelaide and a big property in the high street with a glass front and ‘Thomas’ in lights. She didn’t believe me.
- (uncountable, figuratively) Something used to obscure or conceal; an obscuring condition; see also smoke and mirrors.
- The smoke of controversy.
- (uncountable) A light grey colour/color tinted with blue.
- (uncountable, slang) Bother; problems; hassle.
- You better not be giving me no smoke.
- (military, uncountable) A particulate of solid or liquid particles dispersed into the air on the battlefield to degrade enemy ground or for aerial observation. Smoke has many uses--screening smoke, signaling smoke, smoke curtain, smoke haze, and smoke deception. Thus it is an artificial aerosol.
- (baseball, slang) A fastball.
- (countable) A distinct column of smoke, such as indicating a burning area or fire.
- (cigarette) cig, ciggy, cancer stick, coffin nail, fag (British)
From Middle English smoken, from Old English smocian, from Proto-West Germanic *smokōn, from Proto-Germanic *smukōną, ablaut derivative of Proto-Germanic *smaukaną, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mewg-.
Verbsmoke (smokes, present participle smoking; simple past and past participle smoked)
- (transitive) To inhale and exhale the smoke from a burning cigarette, cigar, pipe, etc.
- He's smoking his pipe. Smoking a pipe has gone out of fashion. Olivia's dad smoked various brands when he was younger.
- (intransitive) To inhale and exhale tobacco smoke.
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC ↗, page 2 ↗:
- He used to drop into my chambers once in a while to smoke, and was first-rate company. When I gave a dinner there was generally a cover laid for him. I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me.
- 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC ↗:
- To Edward […] he was terrible, nerve-inflaming, poisonously asphyxiating. He sat rocking himself in the late Mr. Churchill's swing chair, smoking and twaddling.
- Do you smoke?
- (intransitive) To give off smoke.
- My old truck was still smoking even after the repairs.
- 1645, John Milton, L'Allegro:
- Hard by a cottage chimney smokes.
- (intransitive) Of a fire in a fireplace: to emit smoke outward instead of up the chimney, owing to imperfect draught.
- (transitive) To preserve or prepare (food) for consumption by treating with smoke.
- You'll need to smoke the meat for several hours.
- (transitive) To dry or medicate by smoke.
- 2019, Thomas D. Seeley, The Lives of Bees: The Untold Story of the Honey Bee in the Wild, page 64:
- After opening one of the hives from the back, he smoked the bees to calm them and to drive the queen toward the front of the hive.
- (transitive, obsolete) To fill or scent with smoke; hence, to fill with incense; to perfume.
- (transitive, obsolete) To make unclear or blurry.
- 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts:
- Smoke your bits of glass,
Ye loyal Swine, or her transfiguration
Will blind your wondering eyes.
- (intransitive, slang, mostly, as present participle) To perform (e.g. music) energetically or skillfully.
- The horn section was really smokin' on that last tune.
- (slang) To beat someone at something.
- We smoked them at rugby.
- (transitive, slang) To kill, especially with a gun.
- He got smoked by the mob.
- 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 191 ↗:
- I had never met my father, and Precious's daddy had gotten smoked before she was even born.
- (transitive, slang, obsolete) To thrash; to beat.
- (obsolete, transitive) To smell out; to hunt out; to find out; to detect.
- c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All's Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act III, scene vi]:
- He was first smoked by the old Lord Lafeu.
- 1614–1615, Homer, “(please specify the book number)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer's Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC ↗; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume (please specify the book number), London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC ↗:
- I alone / Smok'd his true person, talk'd with him.
- The spelling has been modernized.
- 1715 June 1 (Gregorian calendar), Joseph Addison, “The Free-holder: No. 44. Saturday, May 21. [1715.]”, in The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq; […], volume IV, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], published 1721, →OCLC ↗:
- Upon that […] I began to smoke that they were a parcel of mummers.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC ↗:
- The squire gave him a good curse at his departure; and then turning to the parson, he cried out, "I smoke it: I smoke it. Tom is certainly the father of this bastard. […]
- (slang, obsolete, transitive) To ridicule to the face; to mock.
- To burn; to be kindled; to rage.
- To raise a dust or smoke by rapid motion.
- 1697, Virgil, “Aeneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC ↗:
- Proud of his steeds, he smokes along the field.
- To suffer severely; to be punished.
- c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act IV, scene ii]:
- Some of you shall smoke for it in Rome.
- (transitive, US military slang) To punish (a person) for a minor offense by excessive physical exercise.
- (transitive) To cover (a key blank) with soot or carbon to aid in seeing the marks made by impressioning.
- (to inhale and exhale smoke from a burning cigarette) have a smoke
- French: fumer
- German: räuchern
- Italian: affumicare, affumare
- Portuguese: defumar
- Russian: копти́ть
- Spanish: ahumar
- French: descendre
Smoke
Proper noun Translations Proper noun
- (UK, informal) London.
- I'm heading down to the Smoke later this week.
smoke
- Synonym of Burmilla
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