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Etymology 1

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FromMiddle Englishsmoke, fromOld Englishsmoca(“smoke”), probably a derivative of the verb (see below). Related toDutchsmook(“smoke”),Middle Low Germansmôk(“smoke”), dialectalGermanSchmauch(“smoke”).

Noun

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Smoke (1)

smoke (countable anduncountable,pluralsmokes)

  2. (uncountable) The visiblevapor/vapour, gases, and fineparticles given off byburning orsmoldering material.
    • 1952 October, C. A. Johns, “One Hundred Years at Kings Cross—1”, inRailway Magazine, page657:
      If those were the days, however, when steam was triumphant, they were also the days ofsmoke. Nowhere was this so apparent as at "Kings Cross (Suburban)" where, one after another, the Great Northern tank engines thumped their way up the incline and emerged from the tunnel, in clouds of steam andsmoke, to pound their way up the last few hundred feet of gradient alongside the platform.
    • 2013 June 29, “Unspontaneous combustion”, inThe Economist, volume407, number8842, page29:
      Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul whitesmoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.
  3. (colloquial, countable) Acigarette.
    Can I bum asmoke off you?;  I need to go buy somesmokes.
    • 2019, Idles, "Never Fight a Man With a Perm",Joy as an Act of Resistance.
      I said I've got a penchant forsmokes and kicking douches in the mouth / Sadly for you my last cigarette's gone out
  4. (colloquial, uncountable) Anything to smoke (e.g. cigarettes, marijuana, etc.)
    Hey, you got somesmoke?
  5. (colloquial, countable, never plural) An instance of smoking acigarette,cigar, etc.; theduration of this act.
    I'm going out for asmoke.
  6. (uncountable, figuratively) Afleeting illusion; somethinginsubstantial,evanescent,unreal,transitory, or without result.
    The excitement behind the new candidate proved to besmoke.
    • 1974,John le Carré, chapter 6, inTinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy‎[1], New York: Knopf, page44:
      I fed her a lot ofsmoke 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.
  7. (uncountable, figuratively) Something used toobscure orconceal; an obscuring condition;see alsosmoke and mirrors.
    Thesmoke of controversy.
  8. (uncountable) A light grey color tinted with blue.
    smoke: 
  9. (uncountable, slang)Bother,trouble;problems;hassle.
    You better not be giving me nosmoke.
  10. (uncountable) Any cloud ofsolidparticles orliquid vapor dispersed into the air; particularly one of:
    1. Opaque aerosol released on abattlefield, used e.g. to signal or to degrade enemy observation viasmokescreen.
    2. Pollen scattered by a plant.
      • 1868, Emily Sarah Sellwood Tennyson, journal entry quoted in1897, Hallam Tennyson,Alfred Lord Tennyson: A Memoir by His Son, page 53:
        There has been a great deal ofsmoke in the yew-trees this year. One day there was such a cloud that it seemed to be a fire in the shrubbery. […]
      • 1869, Alfred Tennyson,Holy Grail, 15:
        A gustful April morn / That puff'd the swaying branches intosmoke.
      • 1903, Mary Rowles Jarvis,The Tree Book, page33:
        […] "fruitful cloud and livingsmoke" of pollen that rises from every spray. The two kinds of flowers are borne on separate trees and the resulting berries are pretty at all stages, and, when ripe,[…]
      • 1998, Diane Capito, Mark Willis,San Antonio on Foot:
        […] the "smoke" of pollen is so thick that distant hills look as if they are on fire. The culprit is the male cedar, which bears miniscule golden pine cones that release pollen when they pop open. The female tree produces a […]
      • 2001 June 14, David M. Carroll,Swampwalker's Journal: A Wetlands Year, HMH,→ISBN, page258:
        […] asmoke of pollen drifts down upon the mat, it is covered and sealed in the ongoing growth of the sphagnum. A dusting of ash from a volcanic eruption halfway around the world becomes incorporated into the time line of its day, […]
    3. Mist,fog, ordrizzle; water vapour, such as fromexhalation into cold air.
      • 1858 [1584?], John Lyly,The Dramatic Works of John Lilly, page110:
        […] steeds, whose lowdnes filled the aire with terrour, and whose breathes dimmed the sun withsmoake, converted to delicate tunes and amorous glances?
      • 1898, Rolf Boldrewood,Robbery Under Arms: A Story of Life and Adventure in the Bush and in the Goldfields of Australia, page71:
        You'll find that one of these days. If there's work ahead you ought to have sense enough not to knocksmoke out of fresh horses before we begin.
      • 1901,The Church Standard, page613:
        […] and asmoke of rain was drifting everywhere. In the thin drizzle the sheep were bleating among the dripping heather, and the birds were chattering and chirming in the shelter of the trees and bushes, and on the top of a sapling larch a […]
      • 2012 February 14, Robert Nye,Falstaff: A Novel, Skyhorse,→ISBN:
        […] in asmoke of rain and spray on the long grey shore. The cry of curlews. Your footprints filling up with water the moment you make them.[…]
  11. (baseball, slang) Afastball.
  12. (countable) A distinct column of smoke, such as indicating a burning area orfire.
    • 1860, Randolph Barnes Marcy,The Prairie and Overland Traveller, page203:
      Should the commander of one column desire to communicate with the other, he raises threesmokes simultaneously, which, if seen by the other party, should be responded to in the same manner.
    • 1923,California Historical Society Quarterly, volume 2, page152:
      […] and we could not discern any settlement or any people, but we did see twosmokes up-river in some thick groves of oak and cork and willows and other high trees, of a good thickness, resembling ash trees.
    • 1941 January, C. Hamilton Ellis, “The Scottish Station”, inRailway Magazine, page 1:
      In the evening haze, even the Calton Gaol took on something of the savage grandeur of a Doré drawing, and this was by no means spoilt by the risingsmokes of North British engines in the ravine below.
    • 1957,Sylva: The Lands and Forests Review, volumes13-14, page43:
      During the night, a severe lightning storm passed over this area and in the morning the towerman reported twosmokes separated by about two miles distance.
    • 2021 May 15, “Guadalupe Mountains National Park Temporarily Closes Backcountry Campsites due to Dog Fire”, inGuadalupe Mountains National Park News Releases‎[2]:
      The aerial reconnaissance did see active flame on heavy fuels (logs) and fine fuels (duff/understory), and severalsmokes.
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Seesmoke/translations § Noun.

Etymology 2

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FromMiddle Englishsmoken, fromOld Englishsmocian(“to smoke, emit smoke; fumigate”), fromProto-West Germanic*smokōn, fromProto-Germanic*smukōną(“to smoke”), ablaut derivative ofProto-Germanic*smaukaną(“to smoke”), fromProto-Indo-European*(s)mewg-(“to smoke”). Cognate withSaterland Frisiansmookje(“to smoke”),West Frisiansmoke(“to smoke”),Dutchsmoken(“to smoke”),Low Germansmöken(“to smoke”),German Low Germansmoken(“to smoke”). Related also toOld Englishsmēocan(“to smoke, emit smoke; fumigate”),Bavarianschmuckelen(“to smell bad, reek”).

Verb

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smoke (third-person singular simple presentsmokes,present participlesmoking,simple pastsmoked,past participlesmokedor(rare, nonstandard)smoken)

  1. (transitive) Toinhale andexhale thesmoke from aburningcigarette,cigar,pipe, etc.
    He'ssmoking his pipe.
    Smoking a pipe has gone out of fashion.
    Olivia's dadsmoked various brands when he was younger.
  2. (intransitive) Toinhale andexhaletobaccosmoke.
    Do yousmoke?
  3. (intransitive) Togive offsmoke.
    My old truck was stillsmoking even after the repairs.
    • 1645,John Milton,L'Allegro:
      Hard by a cottage chimneysmokes.
    1. (intransitive) Of a fire in afireplace: to emit smoke outward instead of up the chimney, owing to imperfect draught.
    2. (intransitive) Oftobacco: to give off or produce smoke (in a certain manner or of a certain type).
      • 1913,Norman Lindsay,A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published1932, page12:
        "Damp tobacco," said Cripps, eyeing Limpet offensively as he threw down the challenge, "smokes unevenly. You'll admit that to start with."
      • 1913,Norman Lindsay,A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published1932, page13:
        "Dry tobacco burns even, and thereforesmokes cool."
  4. (transitive) Topreserve or prepare (food) for consumption by treating with smoke.
    You'll need tosmoke the meat for several hours.
  5. (transitive) Todry ormedicate bysmoke.
    • 2019, Thomas D. Seeley,The Lives of Bees: The Untold Story of the Honey Bee in the Wild, page64:
      After opening one of the hives from the back, hesmoked the bees to calm them and to drive the queen toward the front of the hive.
  6. (transitive, obsolete) Tofill orscent withsmoke; hence, to fill withincense; toperfume.
  7. (transitive, obsolete) To makeunclear orblurry.
    • 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.
  8. (intransitive, slang, chiefly aspresent participle) To perform (e.g. music)energetically orskillfully.
    The horn section was reallysmokin' on that last tune.
  9. (slang) Tobeat someone at something.
    Wesmoked them at rugby.
    • 1987,Punch-Out!!,Nintendo, published1990,Nintendo Entertainment System, level/area: Super Macho Man:
      Super Macho Man: 'I DON'T SMOKE... BUT TONIGHT I'M GONNASMOKE YOU!'
    • 2023 September 28, HarryBlank, “Hooking Up”, inSCP Foundation‎[3], archived fromthe original on25 May 2024:
      "He can weasel out if[sic] it." Ibanez massaged her knuckles. "He can say Couch welshed on a deal, and didn't show, and that's why Karen got got. It isn't conclusive. I have another thing I can lay on him, but even the two combined won't do. We need a third smoking gun if we're really gonnasmoke this son of a bitch."
  10. (transitive, slang) Tosnuff out; tokill, especially with agun.
    He gotsmoked by the mob.
    • 1993, Joseph T. Stanik,"Swift and Effective Retribution": The U.S. Sixth Fleet and the Confrontation with Qaddafi (The U.S. Navy in the Modern World Series; 3)‎[4], Naval Historical Center:
      Ordnancemen stenciled bombs with “greetings” on behalf of friends and loved ones back home or slogans playing on beer and cigarette advertisements, like “To Muammar: For all you do, this bomb's for you” or “I'd fly 10,000 miles tosmoke a camel.”
    • 2006, Noire[pseudonym],Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.:One World,Ballantine Books,→ISBN,page191:
      I had never met my father, and Precious's daddy had gottensmoked before she was even born.
  11. (transitive, slang, obsolete) Tothrash; tobeat.
  12. (obsolete, transitive) To smell out; to hunt out; to find out; todetect.
  13. (slang, obsolete, transitive) Toridicule to theface; tomock.
  14. To burn; to be kindled; to rage.
  15. To raise a dust or smoke by rapid motion.
    • 1697,Virgil, “Aeneis”, inJohn Dryden, transl.,The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […],→OCLC:
      Proud of his steeds, hesmokes along the field.
  16. Tosufferseverely; to bepunished.
  17. (transitive, US militaryslang) To punish (a person) for a minor offense by excessive physical exercise.
  18. (transitive) To cover (akeyblank) withsoot orcarbon to aid in seeing the marks made byimpressioning.
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  • (to inhale and exhale smoke from a burning cigarette): have a smoke
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to inhale and exhale smoke from a burning cigarette
to inhale and exhale tobacco smoke regularly or habitually
to give off smoke
to preserve or prepare by treating with smoke
slang: to perform energetically
slang: to kill, especially with a gun
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Middle English

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Etymology

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FromOld Englishsmoca, fromProto-Germanic*smukô(“smoke, nebulous air”).

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smoke (pluralsmokes)

  1. smoke
    • a.1333,Alcuin, “Poem 22: Quomodo se habet homo?; Fol. 204v”, in William Herebert, transl.,Opera (British Library MS. Add. 46919)‎[5],Hereford; republished asThe Works of William Herebert, OFM (Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse), [Ann Arbor]:University of Michigan,a.2018:
      Also þe lanterne in þe wynd þat sone is aqueynt, / Ase sparkle in þe se þat sone is adreynt, / Ase vom in þe strem þat sone is tothwith, / Asesmoke in þe lift þat passet oure sith.
      Like a lantern in the wind that soon gets quenched, / Like a glimmer in the sea that soon gets drenched / Like foam in the water that soon is dispersed, / Likesmoke in the sky that passes [in] our sight.

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