smoking
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Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈsməʊkɪŋ/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈsmoʊkɪŋ/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -əʊkɪŋ
Etymology 1
From Middle English smokynge, smokiende, from Old English smociende (“smoking”), from Proto-Germanic *smukōndz (“emitting smoke, smoking”), equivalent to smoke + -ing.
Verb
smoking
- present participle and gerund of smoke
Adjective
smoking (comparative more smoking, superlative most smoking)
- Giving off smoke.
- 2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 43:
- Yet had the whole train and all its bombs gone, had the engine crew merely jumped from the train and run as simple self-preservation would have suggested, or unhitched just the engine to make their escape faster, the whole town would have gone and most of the people with it, leaving just a smoking wasteland. Hundreds would have died.
- (slang) Sexually attractive, usually referring to a woman.
- That woman is smoking!
- (slang) Showing great skill or talent.
- The band put on a smoking performance.
Derived terms
Translations
giving off smoke
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Etymology 2
From Middle English smokyng, smokynge, equivalent to smoke + -ing.
Noun
smoking (countable and uncountable, plural smokings)
- The act or process of emitting smoke.
- The burning and inhalation of tobacco.
- Smoking can lead to lung cancer.
- 2012, Montgomery J. Granger, Saving Grace at Guantanamo Bay: A Memoir of a Citizen Warrior:
- He had the loudest voice of any drill sergeant, and seemed to enjoy the group smokings as well as the individual smokings.
- (by extension) The burning and inhalation of other substances, e.g. marijuana.
- The act of exposing (something) to smoke; (by extension) the process by which foods are cured or flavoured by smoke
- (slang, obsolete) A bantering; teasing; mockery.
Derived terms
- no smoking
- smoking car, smoking carriage, smoking compartment
- smoking jacket
- smoking room
Translations
smoking of tobacco
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action of giving off smoke
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References
- “smoking”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from French smoking, pseudo-anglicism, from English smoking jacket.
Noun
smoking m inan
Declension
Declension of smoking (velar masculine inanimate)
Etymology
Borrowed from French smoking, pseudo-anglicism, from English smoking jacket.
Pronunciation
Noun
smoking c (singular definite smokingen, plural indefinite smokinger)
Inflection
| common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | smoking | smokingen | smokinger | smokingerne |
| genitive | smokings | smokingens | smokingers | smokingernes |
Declension of smoking
Etymology
Borrowed from French smoking, pseudo-anglicism, from English smoking jacket.
Pronunciation
Noun
smoking m (plural smokings, diminutive smokinkje n)
- smoking jacket, black tie, dinner jacket, tuxedo [from late 19th c.]
- Ha, hij ziet eruit als een pinguïn in die smoking!
- Hah, he looks like a penguin in that tuxedo!
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
smoking m (plural smokings)
- tuxedo, dinner jacket
- 1925, Maurice Dekobra, La Madone des sleepings:
- Varichkine avait endossé un smoking que nul dandy londonien n’eût renié, un smoking à revers de moire, avec un gilet de faille noire, orné d’une chaîne de montre à breloque symbolique : la faucille et le marteau d’or semés de rubis.
- Varishkin had donned a tuxedo that no London dandy would have refused, a tuxedo with moire lapels, with a black faille waistcoat, adorned with a watch chain with a symbolic charm: the sickle and hammer, made of gold strewn with rubies.
Descendants
Further reading
- “smoking”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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