Word: smoky Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English smoky, smokie, equivalent to smoke + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈsmoʊki/ 1. Filled with smoke. Example: a smoky cabin Example: 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 […] 2. Filled with smoke. Example: a smoky bar Example: “Say, little coon, let’s see you hit a step for the boys! […]” “I can’t,” Sandy said, frowning instead of smiling, and growing warm as he stood there in the smoky circle of grinning white men. “I don’t know how to dance.” 3. Giving off smoke. Example: a smoky oil lamp Example: […] 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? 4. Of a colour or colour pattern similar to that of smoke. Example: The Pismire kinde of Aetius hath a smoky body, an ash-coloured neck, and the back as it were adorned with stars. Example: […] the broken walls and roofs were distinguishable even at that distance, and sometimes a part, which had been repaired, contrasted its colour with the black and smoky hues of the remainder. 5. Having a flavour or odour like smoke; flavoured with smoke. Example: a smoky whisky Example: […] thei abstain from a smoky peace of Bacon or hard salted and poudred biefe or suche lyke […] 6. Resembling or composed of smoke. Example: And let thy mustie vapours march so thicke, That in their smoakie rankes, his smothred light May set at noone, and make perpetuall night. Example: […] I too gave notice to the various wild inhabitants of Walden vale, by a smoky streamer from my chimney, that I was awake. 7. Blackened by smoke. Example: Shepheard I take thy word, And trust thy honest offer’d courtesie, Which oft is sooner found in lowly sheds With smoakie rafters, then in tapstrie halls, And courts of Princes […] Example: The room smelt close and unwholesome; the walls were dirt-discoloured; and the ceiling blackened. There was an old smoky bust over the mantel-shelf, and a dusty clock above the dock […] 8. Having a deep, raspy quality, often as a result of smoking tobacco. Example: “Stop the York four-day stage!” said he, forcing his smoky voice through a world of throat-embracing shawl […] Example: Father laughed his smoky laugh. […] The smoky laughter like a bridge between them over your head. 9. Attractive in a sensual way; sultry. Example: There was still that smoky little thing about her. The sexy swaying walk, the dark voice. Example: Frankly, I don’t think his smoky Armenian looks drew their attention so much as the languid elegance of his manner […] 10. Having a dark, thick, bass sound. Example: a few smoky jazz notes Example: 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, […] the sombre and magnificent Davis fronts both his Quartet and Gil Evans’s orchestra, pouring out a succession of smoky and sonorous solos […] 11. Giving off steam or vapour. Labels: obsolete Example: 1594, Thomas Kyd (translator), Cornelia (Cornélie) by Robert Garnier, London: Nicholas Ling and John Busbie, Act V, He wrencht it [his sword] to the pommel through his sides, That fro the wound the smoky blood ran bubling, Where-with he staggred; Example: Dark was the Path, and difficult, and steep, And thick with Vapours from the smoaky Deep. 12. Obscuring or insubstantial like smoke. Labels: obsolete Example: […] to shewe them selfe playnely, to hate & deteste and abhorre vtterly, the pestylent contagyon of all suche smoky communycacyon. Example: If besides vayne crakes of smoky speeches, ye shewe no demonstration of sounde proofe, why these bragges of yours should be true, let vs graunt your saying. 13. Suspicious; open to suspicion; jealous. Labels: obsolete Example: 1765, Samuel Foote, The Commissary, Act I, in The Works of Samuel Foote, London: George Robinson et al., 1799, Volume 2, p. 18, […] this old brother of ours tho’ is smoky and shrewd, and tho’ an odd, a sensible fellow;