smoking

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsməʊkɪŋ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsmoʊkɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -əʊkɪŋ

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

smoking

1. present participle of smoke

smoking (comparative more smoking, superlative most smoking)

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

   That woman is smoking!

3. (slang) Showing great skill or talent.

   The band put on a smoking performance.

• smoking gun
• smoking hot

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

smoking (countable and uncountable, plural smokings)

1. The act or process of emitting smoke.
2. 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.

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.

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

• smokink

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

smoking m

1. dinner jacket, tuxedo

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

• IPA^(key): /smoːkenɡ/, [ˈsmoːkʰeŋ], /smovkenɡ/, [ˈsmɔwkʰeŋ]

smoking c (singular definite smokingen, plural indefinite smokinger)

1. black tie, dinner jacket, tuxedo

From English smoking jacket, pseudo-anglicism.

• IPA^(key): /smɔ.kiŋ/

smoking m (plural smokings)

1. tuxedo, dinner jacket

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

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

smoking m (invariable)

1. tuxedo, dinner jacket

From English smoking jacket

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

1. tuxedo

From English smoking jacket

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

1. tuxedo

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈsmɔ.kʲink/

smoking m inan

1. tuxedo, dinner jacket

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

smoking m (plural smokings)

1. tuxedo (formal suit)

Borrowed from French smoking, from English smoking jacket.

• IPA^(key): /smǒkinɡ/
• Hyphenation: smo‧king

smòking m (Cyrillic spelling смо̀кинг)

1. tuxedo, dinner jacket

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

smoking m (plural smoking)

1. Obsolete spelling of esmoquin