smoken

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English

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Etymology

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From smoke +‎ -en.

Verb

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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

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈsmoːkə(n)/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: smo‧ken
  • Rhymes: -oːkən

Etymology 1

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

Verb

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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
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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.
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Etymology 2

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

Verb

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smoken

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

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Etymology

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

Verb

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smoken

  1. (intransitive) to smoke; fume; smoulder
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Middle English

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Verb

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smoken

  1. To perfume; to scent