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English

Etymology

Portmanteau/Blend of smoke +? fog.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /sm??/
• (US) enPR: smäg, IPA^(key): /sm??/ also IPA^(key): /sm??/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

smog (countable and uncountable, plural smogs)

1. A noxious mixture of particulates and gases that is the result of urban air pollution.

   Synonyms: pea-souper, pea-soup fog

Hyponyms

• black smog (combination of smoke and fog; stereotypical 19th century London smog)
• photochemical smog (brown haze and ozone; stereotypical 1980s Los Angeles afternoon smog)
• summer smog

Derived terms

• electronic smog
• smoggy
• vog

Translations

Verb

smog (third-person singular simple present smogs, present participle smogging, simple past and past participle smogged)

1. (informal) To get a smog check; to check a vehicle or have it checked for emissions.

   If the car is more than five years old, you'll have to have it smogged before you can register it.

See also

• smaze
• dry fog, dry haze, haze

References

• smog at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• GMOs, goms, mogs

Czech

Noun

smog m

1. smog

Derived terms

• smogový

Further reading

• smog in Kartotéka Novo?eského lexikálního archivu
• smog in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English smog.

Pronunciation

Noun

smog m (uncountable)

1. smog

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English smog.

Noun

smog m (invariable)

1. smog

Polish

Etymology

From English smog.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sm?k/
• Homophone: smok

Noun

smog m inan

1. smog

Declension

Derived terms

• (adjective) smogowy

Further reading

• smog in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• smog in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English smog.

Noun

smog m (uncountable)

1. smog (urban air pollution)

Romanian

Etymology

From English smog.

Noun

smog n (uncountable)

1. smog

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from English smog.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /smô?/

Noun

sm?g m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. smog

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /es?mo?/, [ez?mo??]

• IPA^(key): /?smo?/, [?zmo??]

Noun

smog m (plural smogs)

1. smog

English

Alternative forms

• smoak (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: sm?k, IPA^(key): /sm??k/
• (US) enPR: sm?k, IPA^(key): /smo?k/
• Rhymes: -??k

Etymology 1

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”), dialectal German Schmauch (“smoke”).

Noun

smoke (countable and uncountable, plural smokes)

1. (uncountable) The visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material.
2. (colloquial, countable) A cigarette.
   • 2019, Idles, "Never Fight a Man With a Perm", Joy as an Act of Resistance.

3. (colloquial, uncountable) Anything to smoke (e.g. cigarettes, marijuana, etc.)

   Hey, you got some smoke?

4. (colloquial, countable, never plural) An instance of smoking a cigarette, cigar, etc.; the duration of this act.
   • 1884, Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter VII:

     I lit a pipe and had a good long smoke, and went on watching.

5. (uncountable, figuratively) A fleeting illusion; something insubstantial, evanescent, unreal, transitory, or without result.
   • 1974, John le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, New York: Knopf, Chapter 6, p. 44,^[1]

     I fed her a lot of smoke about a sheep station outside Adelaide and a big property in the high street with a glass front and ‘Thomas’ in lights. She didn’t believe me.

6. (uncountable, figuratively) Something used to obscure or conceal; an obscuring condition; see also smoke and mirrors.

7. (uncountable) A light grey colour/color tinted with blue.

8. (uncountable, slang) bother; problems; hassle

9. (military, uncountable) A particulate of solid or liquid particles dispersed into the air on the battlefield to degrade enemy ground or for aerial observation. Smoke has many uses--screening smoke, signaling smoke, smoke curtain, smoke haze, and smoke deception. Thus it is an artificial aerosol.
10. (baseball, slang) A fastball.
11. (countable) A distinct column of smoke, as indicating a burning area or fire.

Synonyms

• (cigarette): cig, ciggy, cancer stick, coffin nail, fag (British, Australia)

Derived terms

Translations

See smoke/translations § Noun.

Adjective

smoke

1. Of the colour known as smoke.
2. Made of or with smoke.

Translations

Related terms

Etymology 2

From Middle English smoken, from Old English smocian (“to smoke, emit smoke; fumigate”), from Proto-West Germanic *smok?n, from Proto-Germanic *smuk?n? (“to smoke”), ablaut derivative of Proto-Germanic *smaukan? (“to smoke”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mewg- (“to smoke”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian smookje (“to smoke”), West Frisian smoke (“to smoke”), Low German smöken (“to smoke”), German Low German smoken (“to smoke”). Related also to Old English sm?ocan (“to smoke, emit smoke; fumigate”), Bavarian schmuckelen (“to smell bad, reek”).

Verb

smoke (third-person singular simple present smokes, present participle smoking, simple past and past participle smoked)

1. (transitive) To inhale and exhale the smoke from a burning cigarette, cigar, pipe, etc.

2. (intransitive) To inhale and exhale tobacco smoke.

3. (intransitive) To give off smoke.
   • 1645, John Milton, L'Allegro

     Hard by a cottage chimney smokes.

   1. (intransitive) Of a fire in a fireplace: to emit smoke outward instead of up the chimney, owing to imperfect draught.
4. (transitive) To preserve or prepare (food) for consumption by treating with smoke.

5. (transitive) To dry or medicate by smoke.
6. (transitive, obsolete) To fill or scent with smoke; hence, to fill with incense; to perfume.

   • Smoking the temple, ful of clothes fayre, / This Emelie with herte debonaire / Hire body wesshe with water of a well […]

7. (transitive, obsolete) To make unclear or blurry.
   • 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts:

     Smoke your bits of glass,
     Ye loyal Swine, or her transfiguration
     Will blind your wondering eyes.

8. (intransitive, slang, chiefly as present participle) To perform (e.g. music) energetically or skillfully.

9. (US, Canada, New Zealand, slang) To beat someone at something.

10. (transitive, US, slang) To kill, especially with a gun.
11. (transitive, slang, obsolete) To thrash; to beat.
12. (obsolete, transitive) To smell out; to hunt out; to find out; to detect.
    • Template:RQ:Addison Freeloader

      Upon that […] I began to smoke that they were a parcel of mummers.

    • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

      The squire gave him a good curse at his departure; and then turning to the parson, he cried out, "I smoke it: I smoke it. Tom is certainly the father of this bastard. […]

13. (slang, obsolete, transitive) To ridicule to the face; to mock.
14. To burn; to be kindled; to rage.

    • The anger of the Lord and his jealousy shall smoke against that man.

15. To raise a dust or smoke by rapid motion.

    • Proud of his steeds, he smokes along the field.

16. To suffer severely; to be punished.
17. (transitive, US military slang) To punish (a person) for a minor offense by excessive physical exercise.
18. (transitive) To cover (a key blank) with soot or carbon to aid in seeing the marks made by impressioning.

Synonyms

• (to inhale and exhale smoke from a burning cigarette): have a smoke

Derived terms

Descendants

• Dutch: smoken

Translations

See also

Anagrams

• Mesko, mokes

Middle English

Alternative forms

• smok, smoc

Etymology

From Old English smoca.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sm??k(?)/

Noun

smoke (uncountable)

1. smoke

Descendants

• English: smoke
• Yola: smock

References

• “sm?ke, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.