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smoky
/ ˈsməʊkɪ /
adjective
- emitting, containing, or resembling smoke
- emitting smoke excessively or in the wrong place
a smoky fireplace
- of or tinged with the colour smoke
a smoky cat
- having the flavour of having been cured by smoking
- made dark, dirty, or hazy by smoke
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Derived Forms
- ˈsmokiness, noun
- ˈsmokily, adverb
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Other Words From
- smok·i·ly adverb
- smok·i·ness noun
- un·smok·i·ly adverb
- un·smok·i·ness noun
- un·smok·y adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Example Sentences
On 1902, a shoeless boy from the Great Smoky Mountains stood before the dean at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
Toking up was implied by smoky backgrounds and non sequiturial banter.
They also ran the second-most important ad of the season, painting Quinn as a creature of a smoky backroom.
We see Lauren, covered in sweat, dancing nervously in the middle of a smoky, caliginous, gay S&M club.
Thousands of people wrapped in flags marched in the frosty, smoky air.
It'll be a sure enough smoky one, too, with this mixture uh dry grass an' the new growth springin' up.
Four miles to the north of Smoky Cape is an inlet having a bar harbour, on which there is but eight feet water.
Another singer has just finished his turn, and comes out of the smoky hall, wiping the perspiration from his short, fat neck.
One side of the settle faced toward one smoky old fireplace, the other toward the second.
It hung on a crane in the west fireplace, and was delightfully black, and often made the tea taste smoky, like camp tea.
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