different between smoko vs smoke

English

Alternative forms

• smoke-o
• smoke-oh

Etymology

From smoke +? -o.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

smoko (plural smokos)

1. (colloquial, Australia, New Zealand and nautical) A cigarette break from work or military duty; a brief cessation of work to have a smoke, or (more generally) to take a small rest, snack etc. [from 19th c.]
   • 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber 2003, p. 516:

     We saw the innards of a submarine, and afterwards, at smoke-oh, I entertained the men with my story of the bagman's battle with John Oliver O'Dowd.

   • 2005, Lexie Simmons, Darrell Lewis, Kajirri, the Bush Missus, Central Queensland University Press, page 16,

     This area was the general meeting place for all the Aboriginal workers who had some time to spare. The house girls took their smoko or lunch there and were soon joined by everyone else who?d stopped work after the smoko or lunchtime bell.

   • 2007, Lewis Yerloburka O?Brien, Mary-Ann Gale (transcriber), And the Clock Struck Thirteen: The Life and Thoughts of Kaurna Elder Uncle Lewis Yerloburka O?Brien as told to Mary-Ann Gale, page 163,

     One day Ox-head came up to us during smoko to have a yarn and to help himself to some lollies another bloke, Seth, had bought.

   • 2008, Ann Jones, Put the Billy On, Glass House Books, Australia, page 85,

     ‘You chaps should have a camp this afternoon,’ Dad suggested as they finished their meal. ‘You must be tired out. There?s a couple of stretchers upstairs along the verandah. Have a camp on those and we?ll wake you for smoko,’ and the party dispersed until the bell was rung.

Translations

Anagrams

• Mooks, mokos, mooks

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

From English smoke.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?smo.ko/

Noun

smoko

1. smoke

Verb

smoko

1. to smoke, to produce smoke
2. (of tobacco and tobacco products) to smoke

Derived terms

• smokofisi

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.
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      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.