“smokes” is a form of
smoke
UK /sməʊk/ · US /smoʊk/ noun, verb, proper noun
Forms smokes smoking smoked smoken the Smoke smoak
- noun (uncountable) The visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material.
- noun (colloquial, countable) A cigarette. “Can I bum a smoke off you?”
- noun (colloquial, uncountable) Anything to smoke (e.g. cigarettes, marijuana, etc.) “Hey, you got some smoke?”
- noun (colloquial, countable, never plural) An instance of smoking a cigarette, cigar, etc.; the duration of this act. “I'm going out for a smoke.”
- noun (uncountable, figuratively) A fleeting illusion; something insubstantial, evanescent, unreal, transitory, or without result. “The excitement behind the new candidate proved to be smoke.”
- noun (uncountable, figuratively) Something used to obscure or conceal; an obscuring condition; see also smoke and mirrors. “The smoke of controversy.”
- noun (uncountable) A light grey color tinted with blue.
- noun (uncountable, African-American Vernacular, slang) Bother, trouble; problems; hassle. “You better not be giving me no smoke.”
- verb (transitive) To inhale and exhale the smoke from a burning cigarette or cigar, burning material in a pipe, etc. “He's smoking his pipe.”
- verb (intransitive) To inhale and exhale tobacco smoke. “Do you smoke?”
- verb (intransitive) To give off smoke. “My old truck was still smoking even after the repairs.”
- verb (intransitive) Of a fire in a fireplace, to emit smoke outward instead of up the chimney, owing to imperfect draught.
- verb (intransitive) Of tobacco: to give off or produce smoke (in a certain manner or of a certain type).
- verb (transitive) To preserve or prepare (food) for consumption by treating with smoke. “You'll need to smoke the meat for several hours.”
- verb (transitive) To dry or medicate by smoke.
- verb (transitive, obsolete) To fill or scent with smoke; hence, to fill with incense; to perfume.
- proper noun The 44th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.
- proper noun (UK, informal) London. “I'm heading down to the Smoke later this week.”
- noun Synonym of Burmilla.
Synonyms
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Etymology
From Middle English smoke, from Old English smoca (“smoke”), probably a derivative of the verb (see below). Related to Dutch smook (“smoke”), Middle Low German smôk (“smoke”), German Schmauch (“smoke (from a gun barrel)”).
From Middle English smoken, from Old English smocian (“to smoke, to emit smoke”), from Proto-West Germanic *smokōn, from Proto-Germanic *smukōną (“to smoke”), ablaut derivative of Proto-Germanic *smaukaną (“to smoke”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mewg- (“to smoke”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian smookje (“to smoke”), West Frisian smoke (“to smoke”), Dutch smoken (“to smoke”), Low German smöken (“to smoke”), German Low German smoken (“to smoke”). Related also to Old English smēocan (“to smoke, emit smoke; fumigate”), Bavarian schmuckelen (“to smell bad, reek”).
Webster’s 1913
- noun The visible exhalation, vapor, or substance that escapes, or expelled, from a burning body, especially from burning vegetable matter, as wood, coal, peat, or the like.
- noun That which resembles smoke; a vapor; a mist.
- verb To emit smoke; to throw off volatile matter in the form of vapor or exhalation; to reek.
- verb Hence, to burn; to be kindled; to rage.
Etymology [AS. smoca, fr. smeócan to smoke; akin to LG. & D. smook smoke, Dan. smög, G. schmauch, and perh. to Gr. smaugti to choke.]
Etymology [AS. smocian; akin to D. smoken, G. schmauchen, Dan. smöge. See Smoke, n.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “smoke”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details