smoky
Collocations
4ADJ.
cold, hot, red, white
VERB + SMOKY
bar, charred, don't, eat, let, like, saw
SMOKY + NOUN
cabin, restaurants
PREP.
down, in, in, out, with, with
Definitions
adj
Filled with smoke.
a smoky cabin
Some sate turning of spits, and the place being all smoaky, made me thinke on hell, for the ioynts of meat lay as if they had bene broyling in the infernall fier […]
Filled with smoke.
a smoky bar
“Say, little coon, let’s see you hit a step for the boys! […]” “I can’t,” Sandy said, frowning instead of smiling, and growing warm as he stood there in the smoky circle of grinning white men. “I don’t know how to dance.”
Giving off smoke.
a smoky oil lamp
[…] is it I That drive thee from the sportive court, where thou Wast shot at with fair eyes, to be the mark Of smoky muskets?
Of a colour or colour pattern similar to that of smoke.
The Pismire kinde of Aetius hath a smoky body, an ash-coloured neck, and the back as it were adorned with stars.
[…] the broken walls and roofs were distinguishable even at that distance, and sometimes a part, which had been repaired, contrasted its colour with the black and smoky hues of the remainder.
Having a flavour or odour like smoke; flavoured with smoke.
a smoky whisky
[…] thei abstain from a smoky peace of Bacon or hard salted and poudred biefe or suche lyke […]
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6a smoky cabin
WiktionarySome sate turning of spits, and the place being all smoaky, made me thinke on hell, for the ioynts of meat lay as if they had bene broyling in the infernall fier […]
Wiktionary[We] never had better fires in England, then in the dry, ſmoaky houſes of Kecoughtan: […]
WiktionaryLet this smoky air out of the room and let some fresh air in.
Tatoeba · #40681The atmosphere in the room was hot and smoky.
Tatoeba · #44227The bar was so smoky that my eyes started to sting.
Tatoeba · #587921