Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Smoke-hating; disliking tobacco-smoke.

Etymologies

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miso- +‎ stem of Ancient Greek καπνός (kapnos, "smoke") +‎ -ic

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Examples

  • But “Mark in the meanwhile,” says one of the veracious chroniclers from whom I draw these facts, writing seemingly in the palmy days of good Queen Anne, and “not having” (as he says) “before his eyes the fear of that misocapnic Solomon James I. or of any other lying Stuart,” “that not to South

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