smoking
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈsməʊkɪŋ/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈsmoʊkɪŋ/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -əʊkɪŋ
Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle English smokynge, smokiende, from Old English smociende (“smoking”), from Proto-Germanic *smukōndz (“emitting smoke, smoking”), equivalent to smoke + -ing.
Verb
[edit]smoking
- present participle and gerund of smoke
Adjective
[edit]smoking (comparative more smoking, superlative most smoking)
- 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.
- (slang) Sexually attractive, usually referring to a woman.
- That woman is smoking!
- (slang) Showing great skill or talent.
- The band put on a smoking performance.
Derived terms
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Etymology 2
[edit]From Middle English smokyng, smokynge, equivalent to smoke + -ing.
Noun
[edit]smoking (countable and uncountable, plural smokings)
- The act or process of emitting smoke.
- 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.
- (by extension) The burning and inhalation of other substances, e.g. marijuana.
- The act of exposing (something) to smoke; (by extension) the process by which foods are cured or flavoured by smoke
- (slang, obsolete) A bantering; teasing; mockery.
Derived terms
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References
[edit]- “smoking”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Czech
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French smoking, pseudo-anglicism, from English smoking jacket.
Noun
[edit]smoking m inan
Declension
[edit]Danish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French smoking, pseudo-anglicism, from English smoking jacket.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]smoking c (singular definite smokingen, plural indefinite smokinger)
Inflection
[edit]common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | smoking | smokingen | smokinger | smokingerne |
genitive | smokings | smokingens | smokingers | smokingernes |
Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French smoking, pseudo-anglicism, from English smoking jacket.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]smoking m (plural smokings, diminutive smokinkje n)
- 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!
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From English smoking jacket, pseudo-anglicism.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]smoking m (plural smokings)
- 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.
Descendants
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “smoking”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French smoking, a pseudo-anglicism, derived from smoking jacket.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]smoking m (invariable)
References
[edit]- ^ smoking in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From English smoking jacket.
Noun
[edit]smoking m (definite singular smokingen, indefinite plural smokinger, definite plural smokingene)
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From English smoking jacket.
Noun
[edit]smoking m (definite singular smokingen, indefinite plural smokingar, definite plural smokingane)
Polish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French smoking, a pseudo-anglicism, derived from smoking (jacket).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]smoking m inan
Declension
[edit]singular | plural | |
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nominative | smoking | smokingi |
genitive | smokingu | smokingów |
dative | smokingowi | smokingom |
accusative | smoking | smokingi |
instrumental | smokingiem | smokingami |
locative | smokingu | smokingach |
vocative | smokingu | smokingi |
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- smoking in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- smoking in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French smoking, ultimately a pseudo-anglicism, derived from smoking jacket.
Pronunciation
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Noun
[edit]smoking m (plural smokings)
- tuxedo (formal suit)
Serbo-Croatian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French smoking, from English smoking jacket.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]smòking m (Cyrillic spelling смо̀кинг)
Declension
[edit]singular | plural | |
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nominative | smoking | smokinzi |
genitive | smokinga | smokinga |
dative | smokingu | smokinzima |
accusative | smoking | smokinge |
vocative | smokinže / smokingu | smokinzi |
locative | smokingu | smokinzima |
instrumental | smokingom | smokinzima |
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French smoking, pseudo-anglicism, from English smoking jacket.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]smoking m (plural smoking)
Swedish
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Etymology
[edit]Ellipsis of English smoking jacket. First attested in 1895.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]smoking c
- a tuxedo; a dinner jacket
Declension
[edit]Declension of smoking | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | smoking | smokingen | smokingar | smokingarna |
Genitive | smokings | smokingens | smokingars | smokingarnas |
See also
[edit]- frack (“tailcoat”)
References
[edit]- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio links
- Rhymes:English/əʊkɪŋ
- Rhymes:English/əʊkɪŋ/2 syllables
- English terms inherited from Middle English
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms inherited from Old English
- English terms derived from Old English
- English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- English terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- English terms suffixed with -ing
- English non-lemma forms
- English verb forms
- English lemmas
- English adjectives
- English terms with quotations
- English slang
- English terms with usage examples
- English nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- English terms with obsolete senses
- English verbal nouns
- en:Smoking
- Czech terms borrowed from French
- Czech terms derived from French
- Czech terms derived from English
- Czech lemmas
- Czech nouns
- Czech masculine nouns
- Czech inanimate nouns
- Czech masculine inanimate nouns
- Czech velar-stem masculine inanimate nouns
- Danish terms borrowed from French
- Danish terms derived from French
- Danish terms derived from English
- Danish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Danish lemmas
- Danish nouns
- Danish common-gender nouns
- Dutch terms borrowed from French
- Dutch terms derived from French
- Dutch terms derived from English
- Dutch terms with IPA pronunciation
- Dutch terms with audio links
- Dutch lemmas
- Dutch nouns
- Dutch nouns with plural in -s
- Dutch masculine nouns
- Dutch terms with usage examples
- French terms derived from English
- French pseudo-loans from English
- French 2-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French countable nouns
- French terms spelled with K
- French masculine nouns
- French terms with quotations
- Italian terms borrowed from French
- Italian terms derived from French
- Italian pseudo-loans from English
- Italian terms derived from English
- Italian 2-syllable words
- Italian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Italian/ɔkinɡ
- Rhymes:Italian/ɔkinɡ/2 syllables
- Rhymes:Italian/ɔkin
- Rhymes:Italian/ɔkin/2 syllables
- Italian lemmas
- Italian nouns
- Italian indeclinable nouns
- Italian countable nouns
- Italian terms spelled with K
- Italian masculine nouns
- it:Clothing
- Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from English
- Norwegian Bokmål lemmas
- Norwegian Bokmål nouns
- Norwegian Bokmål masculine nouns
- nb:Clothing
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from English
- Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas
- Norwegian Nynorsk nouns
- Norwegian Nynorsk masculine nouns
- nn:Clothing
- Polish terms borrowed from French
- Polish terms derived from French
- Polish pseudo-loans from English
- Polish terms derived from English
- Polish 2-syllable words
- Polish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Polish terms with audio links
- Rhymes:Polish/ɔkiŋk
- Rhymes:Polish/ɔkiŋk/2 syllables
- Polish lemmas
- Polish nouns
- Polish masculine nouns
- Polish inanimate nouns
- pl:Clothing
- Portuguese terms borrowed from French
- Portuguese terms derived from French
- Portuguese pseudo-loans from English
- Portuguese terms derived from English
- Portuguese 2-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Portuguese 3-syllable words
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese terms spelled with K
- Portuguese masculine nouns
- Serbo-Croatian terms borrowed from French
- Serbo-Croatian terms derived from French
- Serbo-Croatian terms derived from English
- Serbo-Croatian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Serbo-Croatian lemmas
- Serbo-Croatian nouns
- Serbo-Croatian masculine nouns
- Spanish terms borrowed from French
- Spanish terms derived from French
- Spanish terms derived from English
- Spanish 3-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/okin
- Rhymes:Spanish/okin/3 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish terms spelled with K
- Spanish masculine nouns
- Spanish obsolete forms
- Spanish pseudo-loans from English
- Swedish terms borrowed from English
- Swedish terms derived from English
- Swedish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Swedish/oːkɪŋ
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish nouns
- Swedish common-gender nouns
- Swedish ellipses
- Swedish pseudo-loans from English
- sv:Clothing