smoke – English noun declension

English noun forms of smoke

Noun: smoke
Singularsmoke
Pluralsmokes

Sample Sentences

  • If those were the days, however, when steam was triumphant, they were also the days of smoke. Nowhere was this so apparent as at "Kings Cross (Suburban)" where, one after another, the Great Northern tank engines thumped their way up the incline and emerged from the tunnel, in clouds of steam and smoke, to pound their way up the last few hundred feet of gradient alongside the platform. [1952 October, C. A. Johns, “One Hundred Years at Kings Cross—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 657:]
  • Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles. [2013 June 29, “Unspontaneous combustion”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 29:]
  • Can I bum a smoke off you?
  • I need to go buy some smokes.
  • 2019, Idles, "Never Fight a Man With a Perm", Joy as an Act of Resistance.
  • I said I've got a penchant for smokes and kicking douches in the mouth / Sadly for you my last cigarette's gone out
  • Hey, you got some smoke?
  • ERCS Guard: Got a smoke? We're all out. [2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Noveria:]
  • I lit a pipe and had a good long smoke, and went on watching. [1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter VII, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC:]
  • I'm going out for a smoke.
  • The excitement behind the new candidate proved to be smoke.
  • I fed her a lot of smoke about a sheep station outside Adelaide and a big property in the high street with a glass front and ‘Thomas’ in lights. She didn’t believe me. [1974, John le Carré, chapter 6, in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, New York: Knopf, page 44:]
  • The smoke of controversy.
  • You better not be giving me no smoke.
  • There has been a great deal of smoke in the yew-trees this year. One day there was such a cloud that it seemed to be a fire in the shrubbery. […] [1868, Emily Sarah Sellwood Tennyson, journal entry quoted in 1897, Hallam Tennyson, Alfred Lord Tennyson: A Memoir by His Son, page 53]
  • A gustful April morn / That puff'd the swaying branches into smoke. [1869, Alfred Tennyson, Holy Grail, 15]
  • […] "fruitful cloud and living smoke" of pollen that rises from every spray. The two kinds of flowers are borne on separate trees and the resulting berries are pretty at all stages, and, when ripe, […] [1903, Mary Rowles Jarvis, The Tree Book, page 33:]
  • […] the "smoke" of pollen is so thick that distant hills look as if they are on fire. The culprit is the male cedar, which bears miniscule golden pine cones that release pollen when they pop open. The female tree produces a[…] [1998, Diane Capito, Mark Willis, San Antonio on Foot:]
  • […] a smoke of pollen drifts down upon the mat, it is covered and sealed in the ongoing growth of the sphagnum. A dusting of ash from a volcanic eruption halfway around the world becomes incorporated into the time line of its day,[…] [2001 June 14, David M. Carroll, Swampwalker's Journal: A Wetlands Year, HMH, →ISBN, page 258:]
  • […] steeds, whose lowdnes filled the aire with terrour, and whose breathes dimmed the sun with smoake, converted to delicate tunes and amorous glances? [1858 [1584?], John Lyly, The Dramatic Works of John Lilly, page 110:]
  • You'll find that one of these days. If there's work ahead you ought to have sense enough not to knock smoke out of fresh horses before we begin. [1898, Rolf Boldrewood, Robbery Under Arms: A Story of Life and Adventure in the Bush and in the Goldfields of Australia, page 71:]
  • […] and a smoke of rain was drifting everywhere. In the thin drizzle the sheep were bleating among the dripping heather, and the birds were chattering and chirming in the shelter of the trees and bushes, and on the top of a sapling larch a[…] [1901, The Church Standard, page 613:]
  • […] in a smoke of rain and spray on the long grey shore. The cry of curlews. Your footprints filling up with water the moment you make them. […] [2012 February 14, Robert Nye, Falstaff: A Novel, Skyhorse, →ISBN:]
  • When, lo! along the tall
  • Rocky hill-side, a smoke ascends in clouds
  • Like snow-flakes, soaring from the summit up
  • Into the sky. [1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume II, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 87:]
  • Should the commander of one column desire to communicate with the other, he raises three smokes simultaneously, which, if seen by the other party, should be responded to in the same manner. [1860, Randolph Barnes Marcy, The Prairie and Overland Traveller, page 203:]
  • […] and we could not discern any settlement or any people, but we did see two smokes up-river in some thick groves of oak and cork and willows and other high trees, of a good thickness, resembling ash trees. [1923, California Historical Society Quarterly, volume 2, page 152:]
  • In the evening haze, even the Calton Gaol took on something of the savage grandeur of a Doré drawing, and this was by no means spoilt by the rising smokes of North British engines in the ravine below. [1941 January, C. Hamilton Ellis, “The Scottish Station”, in Railway Magazine, page 1:]
  • During the night, a severe lightning storm passed over this area and in the morning the towerman reported two smokes separated by about two miles distance. [1957, Sylva: The Lands and Forests Review, volumes 13-14, page 43:]
  • The aerial reconnaissance did see active flame on heavy fuels (logs) and fine fuels (duff/understory), and several smokes. [2021 May 15, “Guadalupe Mountains National Park Temporarily Closes Backcountry Campsites due to Dog Fire”, in Guadalupe Mountains National Park News Releases:]

Etymology

From Middle English smoke, from Old English smoca (“smoke”), probably a derivative of the verb (see below). Related to Dutch smook (“smoke”), Middle Low German smôk (“smoke”), German Schmauch (“smoke (from a gun barrel)”). See: Middle English Nouns 'smoke', Old English Nouns 'smoca', German Nouns 'Schmauch'.

Verbs referencing "smoke"

Icelandic Nouns smók, Slovak Nouns smäd.