Smoky
adj ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 Filled with smoke.
"a smoky cabin"
- 2 Filled with smoke.; Filled with or enveloped in tobacco smoke.
"a smoky bar"
- 3 Giving off smoke.
"a smoky oil lamp"
- 4 Of a colour or colour pattern similar to that of smoke.
"The Pismire kinde of Aetius hath a smoky body, an ash-coloured neck, and the back as it were adorned with stars."
- 5 Having a flavour or odour like smoke; flavoured with smoke.
"a smoky whisky"
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- 6 Resembling or composed of smoke.
"And let thy mustie vapours march so thicke, That in their smoakie rankes, his smothred light May set at noone, and make perpetuall night."
- 7 Blackened by smoke.
"Shepheard I take thy word, And trust thy honest offer’d courtesie, Which oft is sooner found in lowly sheds With smoakie rafters, then in tapstrie halls, And courts of Princes […]"
- 8 Having a deep, raspy quality, often as a result of smoking tobacco.
"“Stop the York four-day stage!” said he, forcing his smoky voice through a world of throat-embracing shawl […]"
- 9 Attractive in a sensual way; sultry.
"There was still that smoky little thing about her. The sexy swaying walk, the dark voice."
- 10 Having a dark, thick, bass sound.
"a few smoky jazz notes"
- 11 Giving off steam or vapour. obsolete
"1594, Thomas Kyd (translator), Cornelia (Cornélie) by Robert Garnier, London: Nicholas Ling and John Busbie, Act V, He wrencht it [his sword] to the pommel through his sides, That fro the wound the smoky blood ran bubling, Where-with he staggred;"
- 12 Obscuring or insubstantial like smoke. obsolete
"[…] to shewe them selfe playnely, to hate & deteste and abhorre vtterly, the pestylent contagyon of all suche smoky communycacyon."
- 13 Suspicious; open to suspicion; jealous. obsolete
"1765, Samuel Foote, The Commissary, Act I, in The Works of Samuel Foote, London: George Robinson et al., 1799, Volume 2, p. 18, […] this old brother of ours tho’ is smoky and shrewd, and tho’ an odd, a sensible fellow;"
- 1 marked by or emitting or filled with smoke wordnet
- 2 tasting of smoke wordnet
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More examples"Let this smoky air out of the room and let some fresh air in."
Etymology
From Middle English smoky, smokie, equivalent to smoke + -y.
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