different between smouldering vs smoking

English

Alternative forms

• smoldering US

Verb

smouldering

1. present participle of smoulder
   • 1859, Alfred Tennyson, Guinevere

     Some evil chance / Will make the smouldering scandal break and blaze.

Noun

smouldering (plural smoulderings)

1. (sometimes figuratively) The act by which something smoulders; residual heat.

   the smoulderings of the Thirty Years War

Anagrams

• remouldings

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?sm??k??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?smo?k??/
• Rhymes: -??k??

Etymology 1

From Middle English smokynge, smokiende, from Old English smociende (“smoking”), from Proto-Germanic *smuk?ndz (“emitting smoke, smoking”), equivalent to smoke +? -ing.

Verb

smoking

1. present participle of smoke

Adjective

smoking (comparative more smoking, superlative most smoking)

1. Giving off smoke.
2. (slang) Sexually attractive, usually referring to a woman.

3. (slang) Showing great skill or talent.

Derived terms

• non-smoking, nonsmoking
• smoking gun
• smoking hot

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English smokyng, smokynge, equivalent to smoke +? -ing.

Noun

smoking (countable and uncountable, plural smokings)

1. The act or process of emitting smoke.
2. The burning and inhalation of tobacco.
   • 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.

3. (by extension) The burning and inhalation of other substances, e.g. marijuana.
4. The act of exposing (something) to smoke; (by extension) the process by which foods are cured or flavoured by smoke
5. (slang, obsolete) A bantering; teasing; mockery.

Derived terms

• no smoking
• smoking car, smoking carriage, smoking compartment
• smoking jacket
• smoking room

Translations

Czech

Alternative forms

• smokink

Etymology

Borrowed from French smoking, pseudo-anglicism, from English smoking jacket.

Noun

smoking m

1. dinner jacket, tuxedo

Declension

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from French smoking, pseudo-anglicism, from English smoking jacket.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /smo?ken?/, [?smo?k?e?], /smovken?/, [?sm?wk?e?]

Noun

smoking c (singular definite smokingen, plural indefinite smokinger)

1. black tie, dinner jacket, tuxedo

Inflection

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French smoking, pseudo-anglicism, from English smoking jacket.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?smo?.k??/
• Hyphenation: smo?king

Noun

smoking m (plural smokings, diminutive smokinkje n)

1. smoking jacket, black tie, dinner jacket, tuxedo [from late 19th c.]

French

Etymology

From English smoking jacket, pseudo-anglicism.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sm?.ki?/

Noun

smoking m (plural smokings)

1. tuxedo, dinner jacket

Further reading

• “smoking” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from French smoking, pseudo-anglicism, from English smoking jacket.

Noun

smoking m (invariable)

1. tuxedo, dinner jacket

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English smoking jacket

Noun

smoking m (definite singular smokingen, indefinite plural smokinger, definite plural smokingene)

1. tuxedo

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English smoking jacket

Noun

smoking m (definite singular smokingen, indefinite plural smokingar, definite plural smokingane)

1. tuxedo

Polish

Etymology

From French smoking, pseudo-anglicism, from English smoking jacket.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sm?.k?ink/

Noun

smoking m inan

1. tuxedo, dinner jacket

Declension

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from French smoking, pseudo-anglicism, from English smoking jacket.

Noun

smoking m (plural smokings)

1. tuxedo (formal suit)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from French smoking, from English smoking jacket.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sm?kin?/
• Hyphenation: smo?king

Noun

smòking m (Cyrillic spelling ????????)

1. tuxedo, dinner jacket

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French smoking, pseudo-anglicism, from English smoking jacket.

Noun

smoking m (plural smoking)

1. Obsolete spelling of esmoquin

Swedish

Etymology

Ellipsis of English smoking jacket.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?smo?k??/
• Rhymes: -o?k??

Noun

smoking c

1. tuxedo, dinner jacket

Declension

References

•  smoking in Svensk ordbok (SO)