smoky

adjective smokier · smokiest · smoakie · smoaky · smokey

1. Filled with smoke. a smoky cabin
2. Filled with or enveloped in tobacco smoke. a smoky bar
3. Giving off smoke. a smoky oil lamp
4. 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.
5. Having a flavour or odour like smoke; flavoured with smoke. a smoky whisky
6. Resembling or composed of smoke. And let thy muſtie vapours march ſo thicke, That in their ſmoakie rankes, his ſmothred light May ſet at noone, and make perpetuall night.

   Similar: fumid, fumous

7. Blackened by smoke. Shepheard I take thy word, And truſt thy honeſt offer’d courteſie, Which oft is ſooner found in lowly ſheds With ſmoakie rafters, then in tapſtrie halls, And courts of Princes, […]
8. Addicted to or associated with the smoking of tobacco. [T]o make amends ſince, he hath kneaded and daub’d up a commedie, called The Transformation of the King of Trinidadoes two Daughters, Madame Panachea and the Nymphe Tobacco: And to approue his Heraldrie, ſcutchend out the honorable Armes of the ſmoakie ſocietie.
9. Of a person’s voice: having a deep, raspy quality, often as a result of smoking tobacco. “Stop the York four-day stage!” said he, forcing his smoky voice through a world of throat-embracing shawl; […]
10. Attractive in a sensual way; sultry. There was still that smoky little thing about her. The sexy swaying walk, the dark voice.
11. Having a dark, thick, bass sound. a few smoky jazz notes
12. obsolete Giving off steam or vapour. He wrencht it [his sword] to the pommel through his ſides, That fro the wound the ſmoky blood ran bubling, VVhere-with he ſtaggred; […]
13. obsolete Obscuring or insubstantial like smoke. [T]o shewe them selfe playnely, to hate & deteste and abhorre vtterly, the pestylent contagyon of all suche smoky communycacyon.
14. obsolete Quick to suspect or take note; open to suspicion; shrewd, sharp, suspicious; jealous. Come, thou art, I see, a smoky old fellow, and I will be very orderly the ensuing part of the journey.