smoken

From smoke +‎ -en.

smoken (third-person singular simple present smokens, present participle smokening, simple past and past participle smokened)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To make or become smoked or smoky.
   • 2011, Allan Massie, Arthur the King:

     She chewed on a knuckle bone and was silent, looking into the dying fire, till she raised her smokened face, looked at him steadily and said, 'You were born an old soul indeed, as I recall, but I'll thank you to remember that this boy, whom I have come to think of as my own bairn too, is one of the innocents of the world.'

   • 2012, Joseph Harry Silber, Bum:

     Steals a large jacket someone left on a chair; steals gulps of O2 from the smokening air; clutches a lost apple and flashlight and gauze; […]

• IPA^(key): /ˈsmoːkə(n)/

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• Hyphenation: smo‧ken
• Rhymes: -oːkən

From Middle Dutch smōken, from Old Dutch *smokon, from Proto-West Germanic *smokōn. Possibly also merged with descendant of Proto-West Germanic *smaukijan.

smoken

1. (transitive, obsolete) to smoke, especially tobacco or a pipe

   Synonym: roken

2. (transitive, obsolete, poetic) to burn, cause to emit smoke
3. (transitive, obsolete) to fry, cook, or braise
4. (intransitive, obsolete) to give off smoke, smoulder; to emit a vapour, fume
5. (intransitive, obsolete, dialectal) to drizzle

• smook
• smuiken

Borrowed from English smoke, from Middle English smoken, from Old English smocian, from Proto-West Germanic *smokōn. Doublet of the word above.

smoken

1. (transitive, slang) to smoke, especially cannabis or hashish

(Usually the verb is conjugated without modifying the stem smoke (from English) in its written form, although it is pronounced as if it were spelt smookte, gesmookt.)

From Middle Low German smōken, smoken, from Old Saxon *smokōn, from Proto-West Germanic *smokōn.

smoken

1. (intransitive) to smoke; fume; smoulder

• smöken

smoken

1. To perfume; to scent
   • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Knyghtes Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:

     Smoking the temple, ful of clothes fayre, / This Emelie with herte debonaire / Hire body wesshe with water of a well […]

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