smoke

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The grey or black cloud of gas and tiny particles that rises from something burning.

   Thick black smoke poured out of the burning building.

2. 2
   verb

   To breathe in and out the smoke from a cigarette, cigar, or pipe.

   He has smoked cigarettes since he was a teenager.

3. 3
   noun

   An occasion of smoking tobacco.

   He stepped outside for a quick smoke.

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Simplified etymology

Smoke is an Old English word. Its use for consuming tobacco is first recorded at the beginning of the 17th century, when people could also be said to “drink” tobacco.

From Middle English smoken, from Old English smocian (“to smoke, emit smoke; fumigate”), from Proto-West Germanic *smokōn, from Proto-Germanic *smukōną (“to smoke”), ablaut derivative of Proto-Germanic *smaukaną (“to smoke”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mewg- (“to smoke”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian smookje (“to smoke”), West Frisian smoke (“to smoke”), Dutch smoken (“to smoke”), Low German smöken (“to smoke”), German Low German smoken (“to smoke”). Related also to Old English smēocan (“to smoke, emit smoke; fumigate”), Bavarian schmuckelen (“to smell bad, reek”).

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