smoke

Smoke (1)

Meanings

The visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material.
A cigarette.
Anything to smoke (e.g. cigarettes, marijuana, etc.)
An instance of smoking a cigarette, cigar, etc.; the duration of this act.
A fleeting illusion; something insubstantial, evanescent, unreal, transitory, or without result.
Something used to obscure or conceal; an obscuring condition; see also smoke and mirrors.
A light grey colour/color tinted with blue.
Bother; problems; hassle.
A particulate of solid or liquid particles dispersed into the air on the battlefield to degrade enemy ground or for aerial observation. Smoke has many uses--screening smoke, signaling smoke, smoke curtain, smoke haze, and smoke deception. Thus it is an artificial aerosol.
A fastball.
A distinct column of smoke, such as indicating a burning area or fire.

To inhale and exhale the smoke from a burning cigarette, cigar, pipe, etc.
To inhale and exhale tobacco smoke.
To give off smoke.
To preserve or prepare (food) for consumption by treating with smoke.
To dry or medicate by smoke.
To fill or scent with smoke; hence, to fill with incense; to perfume.
To make unclear or blurry.
To perform (e.g. music) energetically or skillfully.
To beat someone at something.
To kill, especially with a gun.
To thrash; to beat.
To smell out; to hunt out; to find out; to detect.
To ridicule to the face; to mock.
To burn; to be kindled; to rage.
To raise a dust or smoke by rapid motion.
To suffer severely; to be punished.
To punish (a person) for a minor offense by excessive physical exercise.
To cover (a key blank) with soot or carbon to aid in seeing the marks made by impressioning.

From Middle English smoke, from Old English smoca ("smoke"), probably a derivative of the verb (see below). Related to Dutch smook, Middle Low German smôk, dialectal German Schmauch.
From Middle English smoken, from Old English smocian, from Proto-West Germanic *smokōn, from Proto-Germanic *smukōną, ablaut derivative of Proto-Germanic *smaukaną, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mewg-. Cognate with Saterland Frisian smookje, West Frisian smoke, Low German smöken, German Low German smoken. Related also to Old English smēocan, Bavarian schmuckelen.

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