Dictionary

smoken en · VERB · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• /ˈsməʊ.kən/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• smōk'ən (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈsmoʊ.kən/ (General-American)
• /ˈsmoʊ.kɪn/ (General-American)

Etymology

From smoke + -en (inchoative suffix).

Meanings

1. (ambitransitive) To make or become smoked or smoky.
   • 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.' 2011, Allan Massie, Arthur the King:
   • 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; […] 2012, Joseph Harry Silber, Bum:

Forms

smoken en · VERB · etymology 2

Pronunciation

• /ˈsməʊ.kən/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• smōk'ən (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈsmoʊ.kən/ (General-American)
• /ˈsmoʊ.kɪn/ (General-American)

Etymology

From smoke + -en (suffix forming past participles).

Meanings

1. (form-of, nonstandard, participle, past, rare) past participle of smoke
   form of smoke
   • Kelsey said the youth admitted he had smoken a marijuana cigarette just before school, and that authorities believe it came from Battle Creek, where several persons were made ill last week by pot containing formaldehyde. 1981 January 29, “Eaton Finds Youth Victim Of Pot-Formaldehyde Mix”, in The Grand Rapids Press, 89th year, number 139, Grand Rapids, Mich., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 9A, columns 5–6:
   • It had been a gift from Maud – that dubious cousin of hers – and had been packaged in a pink jewellery box with a bow. To be smoken before the event – Love, Maud. She had smoken it all right, in the hotel bathroom, hanging out of the window and then scrubbing her teeth vigorously with baking soda in the hope that Wellington wouldn’t detect the sweet, heady smell of marijuana on her breath. 1995, Greg Kramer, “Change”, in The Pursemonger of Fugu: A Bathroom Mystery, Toronto, Ont.: The Riverbank Press, →ISBN, page 207:
   • Frequently after the husband has smoken for a while, he hands the cigar to his wife. 1850 March 8, J[ohn] Scudder [Sr.], “Letter from Rev. Dr. Scudder, Madras, India”, in Elizabeth Sewell, Myron Finch, editors, The Mother’s Magazine and Family Journal, New York, N.Y.: Myron Finch, […], →OCLC, page 282:
   • Besides, the brochure continues, a lot of studies about the effects of smoking are balderdash, adding that the great British leader Sir Winston Churchill, who lived to be 91, estimated he had smoken 22 kilomteres^([sic]) of cigars in his lifetime. 1987 January 2, Don Hoyt, “Smoking: Is There Another Side To The Question?”, in The Telegraph-Journal, volume 132, number 2, Saint John, N.B., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 6, columns 5–6:
   • “Mary,” said an old Cumberland farmer to his daughter, when she was once asking him to buy her a new beaver, “why dost thou always teaze me about such things when I’m quietly smoking my pipe?” “Because ye are always best tempered then, feyther,” was the reply. “I believe, lass, thoust reet,” rejoined the farmer; “for when I was a lad, I remember that my poor feyther was just the same; after he had smoken a pipe or twee he wad ha’ gi’en his head away if it had been loose.” 1839 September 8, “The Benevolence of a Pipe”, in The Champion and Weekly Herald, volume III, number 156, London, →OCLC, page 6, column 4:
   • He admitted that at one time marijuana had been in the jacket, that he and another boy had smoken marijuana once and only once about six or seven months ago. 1967 April 15, Roosevelt, “ACLU Reports”, in Helix: Seattle Fortnightly, volume 1, number 2, Seattle, Wash., →OCLC, page 5, column 1:
   • After a long pause, they smile or grin at each other, this is understood to be the prelude to asking news, and the conversation becomes general after they have smoken a pipe. c. 1804, Peter Grant, “The Sauteux Indians”, in Les bourgeois de la Compagnie du Nord-Ouest […], 2nd series (overall work in French), Quebec, Que.: […] A[ugustin] Coté et Cⁱᵉ, published 1890, →OCLC, section II ([…]), page 328:
   • “[…] So that the whole sum would be more than $20,000. That would buy a fine house and lot in the city. It would pay for a large farm in the country. Don’t you pitty the family of the man who has slowly burned up their home?” / “Whew! I guess you mean me, for I have smoken more than twenty years. But it didn’t cost me so much as that, and I haven’t any house of my own.[…]” 1879 June 10, “A Bad Fire”, in The Primitive Christian and Pilgrim. […], volume XVII, number 23, Huntingdon, Pa.: Quinter & Brumbaugh Bros., →OCLC, page 355, column 3: