smoky
形容词 adj.
美 /ˈsmoʊki/
英文释义
形容词 adj.
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Filled with smoke.
— a smoky cabin
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Filled with smoke.; Filled with or enveloped in tobacco smoke.
— a smoky bar
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Giving off smoke.
— a smoky oil lamp
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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.
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Having a flavour or odour like smoke; flavoured with smoke.
— a smoky whisky
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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.
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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 […]Comus
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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 […]
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Attractive in a sensual way; sultry.
— There was still that smoky little thing about her. The sexy swaying walk, the dark voice.
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Having a dark, thick, bass sound.
— a few smoky jazz notes
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Giving off steam or vapour.
— 1594, Thomas Kyd (translator), Cornelia (Cornélie) by Robert Garnier, London: Nicholas Ling and John Busbie, Act V, He wrencht it [his sword] to the pommel through his sides, That fro the wound the smoky blood ran bubling, Where-with he staggred;
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Obscuring or insubstantial like smoke.
— […] to shewe them selfe playnely, to hate & deteste and abhorre vtterly, the pestylent contagyon of all suche smoky communycacyon.
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Suspicious; open to suspicion; jealous.
— 1765, Samuel Foote, The Commissary, Act I, in The Works of Samuel Foote, London: George Robinson et al., 1799, Volume 2, p. 18, […] this old brother of ours tho’ is smoky and shrewd, and tho’ an odd, a sensible fellow;
词汇关系
词源
From Middle English smoky, smokie, equivalent to smoke + -y.
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