Meaning

Filled with smoke..

Definitions by Sense

1. Filled with smoke.
2. Giving off smoke.
3. Of a colour or colour pattern similar to that of smoke.
4. Having a flavour or odour like smoke; flavoured with smoke.
5. Resembling or composed of smoke.
6. Blackened by smoke.
7. (of a person's voice) Having a deep, raspy quality, often as a result of smoking tobacco.
8. Attractive in a sensual way; sultry.

Example Sentences

a smoky cabin

1819, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Peter Bell the Third,” Part 3, in The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, London: Edward Moxon, 1839, p. 240, Hell is a city much like London— A populous and a smoky city;

Some sate turning of spits, and the place being all smoaky, made me thinke on hell, for the ioynts of meat lay as if they had bene broyling in the infernall fier […]

[We] never had better fires in England, then in the dry, ſmoaky houſes of Kecoughtan: […]

[…] even the smoky air of one of the most smoky streets of the suburbs is chearful, and salubrious, to the oppression I felt in the chamber we have just left […]

a smoky oil lamp

1894, George Santayana, Sonnet, in Sonnets and Other Verses, Cambridge, MA: Stone and Kimball, p. 5, Our knowledge is a torch of smoky pine That lights the pathway but one step ahead Across a void of mystery and dread.

[…] is it I That drive thee from the sportive court, where thou Wast shot at with fair eyes, to be the mark Of smoky muskets?

Word Forms

• smokier
• smokiest
• smokey
• smoakie

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