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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Emitting smoke in profuse volume.
  • adjective Mixed or filled with smoke.
  • adjective Resembling smoke.
  • adjective Discolored or soiled with or as if with smoke.
  • adjective Tasting of smoke.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Emitting smoke, especially much smoke; smoldering: as, smoky fires.
  • Having the appearance or nature of smoke.
  • Filled with smoke, or with a vapor resembling it; filled with a haze; hazy: as, a smoky atmosphere.
  • Subject to be filled with smoke from the chimneys or fireplaces.
  • Emitting smoke in an objectionable or troublesome way: said of chimneys, stoves, etc., sending out smoke, at fireplaces and pipe-holes, into the house, because of poor draft.
  • Stained or tarnished with smoke.
  • Quick to smoke an idea; keen to smell out a secret; suspicious.
  • Of the color of smoke; of a grayish-brown color.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Emitting smoke, esp. in large quantities or in an offensive manner; fumid.
  • adjective Having the appearance or nature of smoke.
  • adjective Filled with smoke, or with a vapor resembling smoke; thick.
  • adjective Subject to be filled with smoke from chimneys or fireplace.
  • adjective Tarnished with smoke; noisome with smoke
  • adjective obsolete Suspicious; open to suspicion.
  • adjective (Min.) a variety of quartz crystal of a pale to dark smoky-brown color. See Quartz.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Filled with smoke.
  • adjective Of a colour or colour pattern similar to that of smoke.
  • adjective Having flavour like smoke.
  • adjective music, informal Having a dark, thick, bass sound.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective tasting of smoke
  • adjective marked by or emitting or filled with smoke

Etymologies

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smoke +‎ -y

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