Fromsmoke +-en(inchoative suffix).
smoken (third-person singular simple presentsmokens,present participlesmokening,simple past and past participlesmokened)
- (ambitransitive) To make or becomesmoked orsmoky.
2011, Allan Massie,Arthur the King:She chewed on a knuckle bone and was silent, looking into the dying fire, till she raised hersmokened face, looked at him steadily and said, 'You were born an old soul indeed, as I recall, but I'll thank you to remember that this boy, whom I have come to think of as my own bairn too, is one of the innocents of the world.'
2012, Joseph Harry Silber,Bum:Steals a large jacket someone left on a chair; steals gulps of O2 from thesmokening air; clutches a lost apple and flashlight and gauze;[…]
Fromsmoke +-en(suffix forming past participles).
smoken
- (rare, nonstandard)pastparticiple ofsmoke
c.1804, Peter Grant, “The Sauteux Indians”, inLes bourgeois de la Compagnie du Nord-Ouest […], 2nd series (overall work in French), Quebec, Que.: […] A[ugustin] Coté et Cie, published1890,→OCLC, section II ([…]),page328:After a long pause, they smile or grin at each other, this is understood to be the prelude to asking news, and the conversation becomes general after they havesmoken a pipe.
1839 September 8, “The Benevolence of a Pipe”, inThe Champion and Weekly Herald, volume III, number156, London,→OCLC,page 6, column 4:“Mary,” said an old Cumberland farmer to his daughter, when she was once asking him to buy her a new beaver, “why dost thou always teaze me about such things when I’m quietly smoking my pipe?” “Because ye are always best tempered then, feyther,” was the reply. “I believe, lass, thoust reet,” rejoined the farmer; “for when I was a lad, I remember that my poor feyther was just the same; after he hadsmoken a pipe or twee he wad ha’ gi’en hishead away if it had been loose.”- FromA Paper—of Tobacco.
1850 March 8,J[ohn] Scudder [Sr.], “Letter from Rev. Dr. Scudder, Madras, India”, in Elizabeth Sewell, Myron Finch, editors,The Mother’s Magazine and Family Journal, New York, N.Y.: Myron Finch, […],→OCLC,page282:Frequently after the husband hassmoken for a while, he hands the cigar to his wife.
1879 June 10, “A Bad Fire”, inThe Primitive Christian and Pilgrim. […], volume XVII, number23, Huntingdon, Pa.: Quinter & Brumbaugh Bros.,→OCLC,page355, column 3:“[…] So that the whole sum would be more than $20,000. That would buy a fine house and lot in the city. It would pay for a large farm in the country. Don’t you pitty the family of the man who has slowly burned up their home?” / “Whew! I guess you mean me, for I havesmoken more than twenty years. But it didn’t cost me so much as that, and I haven’t any house of my own. […]”
1967 April 15, Roosevelt, “ACLU Reports”, inHelix: Seattle Fortnightly, volume 1, number 2, Seattle, Wash.,→OCLC,page 5, column 1:He admitted that at one time marijuana had been in the jacket, that he and another boy hadsmoken marijuana once and only once about six or seven months ago.
1981 January 29, “Eaton Finds Youth Victim Of Pot-Formaldehyde Mix”, inThe Grand Rapids Press, 89th year, number139, Grand Rapids, Mich.,→ISSN,→OCLC,page 9A, columns5–6:Kelsey said the youth admitted he hadsmoken a marijuana cigarette just before school, and that authorities believe it came from Battle Creek, where several persons were made ill last week by pot containing formaldehyde.
1987 January 2, Don Hoyt, “Smoking: Is There Another Side To The Question?”, inThe Telegraph-Journal, volume132, number 2, Saint John, N.B.,→ISSN,→OCLC,page 6, columns5–6:Besides, the brochure continues, a lot of studies about the effects of smoking are balderdash, adding that the great British leader SirWinston Churchill, who lived to be 91, estimated he hadsmoken 22 kilomteres[sic] of cigars in his lifetime.
1995,Greg Kramer, “Change”, inThe Pursemonger of Fugu: A Bathroom Mystery, Toronto, Ont.: The Riverbank Press,→ISBN,page207:It had been a gift from Maud – that dubious cousin of hers – and had been packaged in a pink jewellery box with a bow.To besmoken before the event – Love, Maud. She hadsmoken it all right, in the hotel bathroom, hanging out of the window and then scrubbing her teeth vigorously with baking soda in the hope that Wellington wouldn’t detect the sweet, heady smell of marijuana on her breath.
FromMiddle Dutchsmōken, fromOld Dutch*smokon, fromProto-West Germanic*smokōn. Possibly also merged with descendant ofProto-West Germanic*smaukijan.
smoken
- (transitive, obsolete) tosmoke, especiallytobacco or apipe
- Synonym:roken
- (transitive, obsolete, poetic) toburn, cause to emit smoke
- (transitive, obsolete) tofry,cook, orbraise
- (intransitive, obsolete) togive off smoke,smoulder; to emit avapour,fume
- (intransitive, obsolete, dialectal) todrizzle
Borrowed fromEnglishsmoke, fromMiddle Englishsmoken, fromOld Englishsmocian, fromProto-West Germanic*smokōn. Doublet of the word above.
smoken
- (transitive, slang) tosmoke, especiallycannabis orhashish
(Usually the verb is conjugated without modifying the stemsmoke (from English) in its written form, although it is pronounced as if it were speltsmookte,gesmookt.)
FromMiddle Low Germansmōken,smoken, fromOld Saxon*smokōn, fromProto-West Germanic*smokōn.
smoken
- (intransitive) tosmoke;fume;smoulder
smoken
- Toperfume; toscent
1387–1400,Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Knyghtes Tale”, inThe Canterbury Tales, [Westminster:William Caxton, published1478],→OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor,The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […],[London]: […] [Richard Grafton for]Iohn Reynes […],1542,→OCLC:Smoking the temple, ful of clothes fayre, / This Emelie with herte debonaire / Hire body wesshe with water of a well[…]- (pleaseadd an English translation of this quotation)
