smoking

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

• Audio (US):

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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 and gerund of smoke

smoking (comparative more smoking, superlative most smoking)

1. Giving off smoke.
   • 2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 43:

     Yet had the whole train and all its bombs gone, had the engine crew merely jumped from the train and run as simple self-preservation would have suggested, or unhitched just the engine to make their escape faster, the whole town would have gone and most of the people with it, leaving just a smoking wasteland. Hundreds would have died.

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.

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 flavored by smoke.
5. (slang, obsolete) A bantering; teasing; mockery.

• “smoking”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

• smokink

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

smoking m inan

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

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈsmoː.kɪŋ/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: smo‧king

smoking m (plural smokings, diminutive smokinkje n)

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

   Ha, hij ziet eruit als een pinguïn in die smoking!

   Hah, he looks like a penguin in that tuxedo!

From English smoking jacket, pseudo-anglicism.

• IPA^(key): /smɔ.kiŋ/

smoking m (plural smokings)

1. tuxedo, dinner jacket
   • 1925, Maurice Dekobra, La Madone des sleepings:

     Varichkine avait endossé un smoking que nul dandy londonien n’eût renié, un smoking à revers de moire, avec un gilet de faille noire, orné d’une chaîne de montre à breloque symbolique : la faucille et le marteau d’or semés de rubis.

     Varishkin had donned a tuxedo that no London dandy would have refused, a tuxedo with moire lapels, with a black faille waistcoat, adorned with a watch chain with a symbolic charm: the sickle and hammer, made of gold strewn with rubies.

• → Finnish: smokki
• → Turkish: smokin

• “smoking”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from French smoking, a pseudo-anglicism derived from smoking jacket.

• IPA^(key): /ˈzmɔ.kinɡ/, /ˈzmɔ.kin/^[1]
• Rhymes: -ɔkinɡ, -ɔkin
• Hyphenation: smò‧king

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, a pseudo-anglicism derived from smoking (jacket).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsmɔ.kiŋk/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɔkiŋk
• Syllabification: smo‧king

smoking m inan

1. dinner jacket, tuxedo

• smoking in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• smoking in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from French smoking, ultimately a pseudo-anglicism derived from 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 inan (Cyrillic spelling смо̀кинг)

1. tuxedo, dinner jacket

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

• IPA^(key): /esˈmokin/ [ezˈmo.kĩn]
• Rhymes: -okin

smoking m (plural smoking)

1. obsolete spelling of esmoquin

Ellipsis of English smoking jacket. First attested in 1895.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsmoːkɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -oːkɪŋ

smoking c

1. a tuxedo; a dinner jacket

• frack (“tailcoat”)

• smoking in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• smoking in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• smoking in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)