smoken

See also: smöken

English

Etymology

From smoke +‎ -en.

Verb

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; […]

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsmoːkə(n)/

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• Hyphenation: smo‧ken
• Rhymes: -oːkən

Etymology 1

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

Verb

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

Conjugation

Conjugation of smoken (weak)
infinitive	smoken
past singular	smookte
past participle	gesmookt
infinitive	smoken
gerund	smoken n
	present tense	past tense
1st person singular	smook	smookte
2nd person sing. (jij)	smookt, smook2	smookte
2nd person sing. (u)	smookt	smookte
2nd person sing. (gij)	smookt	smookte
3rd person singular	smookt	smookte
plural	smoken	smookten
subjunctive sing.1	smoke	smookte
subjunctive plur.1	smoken	smookten
imperative sing.	smook
imperative plur.1	smookt
participles	smokend	gesmookt
1) Archaic. 2) In case of inversion.

Related terms

• smook
• smuiken

Etymology 2

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

Verb

smoken

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

Conjugation

(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.)

Conjugation of smoken (weak)
infinitive	smoken
past singular	smokete
past participle	gesmoket
infinitive	smoken
gerund	smoken n
	present tense	past tense
1st person singular	smoke	smokete
2nd person sing. (jij)	smoket, smoke2	smokete
2nd person sing. (u)	smoket	smokete
2nd person sing. (gij)	smoket	smokete
3rd person singular	smoket	smokete
plural	smoken	smoketen
subjunctive sing.1	smoke	smokete
subjunctive plur.1	smoken	smoketen
imperative sing.	smoke
imperative plur.1	smoket
participles	smokend	gesmoket
1) Archaic. 2) In case of inversion.

German Low German

Etymology

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

Verb

smoken

1. (intransitive) to smoke; fume; smoulder

Related terms

• smöken

Middle English

Verb

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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