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Definition: Smoky |
SmokyAdjective1. Marked by or emitting or filled with smoke; "smoky rafters"; "smoky chimneys"; "a smoky fireplace"; "a smoky corridor". 2. Tasting of smoke; "smoky sausages". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "smoky" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Note: Smoky \Smok"y\, adjective. [Comparative Smokier; superlative Smokiest.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Slang in 1811 | SMOKY. Curious, suspicious, inquisitive. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Antonym: smokeless (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Uncleanness | Adjective: dirty, filthy, grimy; unclean, impure; soiled; Verb: not to be handled with kid gloves; dusty, snuffy, smutty, sooty, smoky; thick, turbid, dreggy; slimy; mussy. |
Warfare | Phrase: the battle rages; a la guerre comme a la guerre; bis peccare in bello non licet; jus gladii; "my voice is still for war"; "'tis well that war is so terrible, otherwise we might grow fond of it"; "my sentence is for open war"; "pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war"; "the cannons have their bowels full of wrath"; "the cannons..spit forth their iron indignation"; "the fire-eyed maid of smoky war"; silent leges inter arma; si vis pacem para bellum. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Smoky |
| English words defined with "smoky": Bituminous coal ♦ cairngorm, Cairngormstone ♦ fug, Fuliginously, Fumacious, Fumid, Fumous ♦ jargon, jargoon ♦ Peliom, Potato whisky ♦ Reechy, Reeky ♦ smoked salmon, Smokily, Smokiness, smoky quartz, smudge, soft coal. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "smoky": cairngorm stone ♦ sensitive receptor, smoky topaz ♦ unakite. (references) |
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Lyrics | A smoky room, a small café (Spanish Guitar; performing artist: Toni Braxton) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Smoky (1966) On Top of Old Smoky (1953) Smoky Canyon (1952) A Smoky Mountain Christmas (1986) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Credit: NPS. |  | U.S. Army Air Forces. Regional Hospital, Smoky Hill Army Air Field, Salina, Kan. : Aerial view. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Dr. Franklin on Smoky Chimneys. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | View on the Smoky. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Hatlo's History : a day in the life of General Smoky Grant --. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Smoky Temple" by Tim Gilmour Commentary: "Smoky interior shot of a minor shrine in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia." | "A Quiet Drive in the Smoky Mts" by Jean Ilderton Commentary: "Near Gaitlinburg TN October ~ ." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Shakespeare | O, he is as tedious as is a tired horse, or a railing wife; worse than a smoky house. |
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Business | On March 1, 2001 a new law was to be introduced that enabled the police to impose a NZ$150 fine on motorists with smoky vehicles. (references) | |
Human Rights | Russia | Boys are held with adults in small, crowded, and smoky cells. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Smoky" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 92.48% of the time. "Smoky" is used about 226 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 92.48% | 209 | 21,011 |
| Noun (proper) | 7.52% | 17 | 85,106 |
| Total | 100.00% | 226 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "smoky": great Smoky Mountains ♦ great Smoky Mountains National Park ♦ smoky mist ♦ smoky quartz ♦ smoky topaz ♦ smoky town. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "smoky": smoky-accented, smoky-blue, smoky-breath, smoky-looking, smoky-sized. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "smoky"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | tymues, që tymon, i nxirë (blackened, livid, sooty). (various references) | |
Arabic | مفعم بالدخان, مدخن (fumigated, fumy, smoked), داخن. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | тъмносив (slaty), опушен (fuliginous, fumy, smoked), замъглен (befogged, blear, bleary, filmy, foggy, hazy, misted, misty, nebulous, vapory, vapoury), задимен, пушещ, димящ, димен. (various references) | |
Chinese | 发烟性. (various references) | |
Czech | zakouřený, uzený (smoke dried, smoked), èoudící. (various references) | |
Danish | sodet udstødning (exhaust fumes, smoky exhaust), sodende flamme (smoky flame), roetopas (smoky topaz-quartz), roegkvarts (smoky quartz), branket lugt (smoky odour). (various references) | |
Dutch | walmende vlam (smoky flame), uitlaatrook (exhaust fumes, smoky exhaust), rookkwarts (smoky quartz), roodtopaas (smoky topaz-quartz), roetende vlam (smoky flame), branderige reuk (smoky odour). (various references) | |
Farsi | پردود, دودی , دودکننده , دودکن , دودگرفته . (various references) | |
Finnish | savuinen. (various references) | |
French | qui fume, fumeux (smokily), fumant (smoking, smouldering), fuligineux, enfumé. (various references) | |
German | rauchig (smokily), qualmig (smoke-filled). (various references) | |
Greek | καπνώδησ, καπνισμένοσ (sooty), καπνιστόσ (sooty), καπνίζων. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מלא עשן, עשון (fumigation, smoking, smoking of food), עשני. (various references) | |
Hungarian | füstös (fuliginous, fumy, turbid), bekormozott (corked), dohányfüstös, füstölő (incense, smoking), füstölgő (reeking), füstölt ízű, befüstölt, füsttől feketére festett, telefüstölt, füsttel teli, ködbe burkolt, kormos (fuliginous, grimy, smutty, sooty), kormozó, párás (damp, hazy, steamy, vaporous, vapourish), pipáló, füsttől befeketített. (various references) | |
Italian | fumoso (obscure, smokily, smoking), che da fumo, affumicato (blackened, smoked). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 煙たい (feeling awkward), 煙たい (feeling awkward), 煙い . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | けむたい (feeling awkward), けむい. (various references) | |
Korean | 연기가 자욱한. (various references) | |
Manx | jaaghagh (smoking). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | okysmay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | fumacento, fuliginoso (fuliginous), enfumaçado (smoked, smoke-dried), enegrecido pelo fumo (reeky, smoked, smoke-dried), defumado (reeky, smoked, smoke-dried), cheio de fumo. (various references) | |
Romanian | plin de funingine, plin de fum (fuliginous), fumuriu, de fum, cu fum, care fumegã, afumat (boozy, censer, fuddled, half-seasoned, hazy, jolly, moony, pickled, smoke dried, squiffed), aburit (boozy, covered with steam, flushing, glowing, misty, Reeky). (various references) | |
Russian | дымный (fumy). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | dimljiv. (various references) | |
Spanish | humeante (Reeky, steaming, steamy). (various references) | |
Swedish | rykande (reeking, smoking), rökig (fumy, Reeky), rök-, nerrökt. (various references) | |
Thai | เต็มไปด้วยควัน. (various references) | |
Turkish | tüten (Reeky, smoking), koyu füme, dumansı, dumanlı (foggy, hazy, nebulous, Reeky, thick), duman rengi, duman çıkaran (smoking). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | тинівка, курний, задимлений (smoke-filled), прокурений (smoke-filled), димчастий кіт, димний. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | toả khói, đen vì khói như khói, đầy khói ám khói. (various references) | |
Welsh | myglyd (asthmatic, close). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | fomeus, fumidus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Smoky" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cmkyr, mokie, Mokyr, seoki, shmok, smek, smey, smo, smoak, smok, smokey, smowy, smoy, snok, somy, Sookey, sooky, spoky, stooky. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "smoky" (pronounced smō"kē) |
| 5 | s m ō" k ē | Smokey. |
| 3 | -ō" k ē | karaoke, hokey, loci, pokey, poky. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "k-m-o-s-y" | |
-1 letter: mosk, yoks. | |
-2 letters: kos, mos, oms, sky, som, soy, yok, yom. | |
-3 letters: mo, my, om, os, oy, so, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "k-m-o-s-y" | |
+1 letter: koumys, smokey. | |
+2 letters: koumyss, misyoke, monkeys, smokily, soymilk. | |
+3 letters: koumyses, misyoked, misyokes, soymilks. | |
+4 letters: hymnbooks, irksomely, karyosome, koumysses, kymograms, misyoking, yokemates. | |
+5 letters: cockneyism, karyosomes, kymographs, monkeypods. | |
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