smoky

== English == === Alternative forms === smokey, smoakie (obsolete) === Etymology === From Middle English smoky, smokie, equivalent to smoke +‎ -y. === Pronunciation === (US) enPR: smō'kē, IPA(key): /ˈsmoʊki/ Rhymes: -əʊki === Adjective === smoky (comparative smokier, superlative smokiest) Filled with smoke. 1819, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Peter Bell the Third,” Part 3, in The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, London: Edward Moxon, 1839, p. 240,[4] Hell is a city much like London— A populous and a smoky city; Filled with or enveloped in tobacco smoke. Giving off smoke. 1894, George Santayana, Sonnet, in Sonnets and Other Verses, Cambridge, MA: Stone and Kimball, p. 5,[7] Our knowledge is a torch of smoky pineThat lights the pathway but one step aheadAcross a void of mystery and dread. Of a colour or colour pattern similar to that of smoke. Having a flavour or odour like smoke; flavoured with smoke. Resembling or composed of smoke. Blackened by smoke. (of a person's voice) Having a deep, raspy quality, often as a result of smoking tobacco. Attractive in a sensual way; sultry. (music) Having a dark, thick, bass sound. 1962, Philip Larkin, “Billie’s Golden Years,” The Daily Telegraph, 17 October, 1962, republished in All What Jazz: A Record Diary, 1961—1971, New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1985, p. 73,[18] […] the sombre and magnificent Davis fronts both his Quartet and Gil Evans’s orchestra, pouring out a succession of smoky and sonorous solos […] (obsolete) Giving off steam or vapour. 1594, Thomas Kyd (translator), Cornelia (Cornélie) by Robert Garnier, London: Nicholas Ling and John Busbie, Act V,[21] He wrencht it [his sword] to the pommel through his sides,That fro the wound the smoky blood ran bubling,Where-with he staggred; (obsolete) Obscuring or insubstantial like smoke. (obsolete) Suspicious; open to suspicion; jealous. 1765, Samuel Foote, The Commissary, Act I, in The Works of Samuel Foote, London: George Robinson et al., 1799, Volume 2, p. 18,[26] […] this old brother of ours tho’ is smoky and shrewd, and tho’ an odd, a sensible fellow; ==== Synonyms ==== (resembling or composed of smoke): fumid, fumous ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== → Central Bontoc: Samoki ==== Translations ==== === References ===