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smeek
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[], (Noun)
Definitions:
- Smoke from burning or smouldering material.
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Origin
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Middle English. Variant of smeech
[], (Verb)
Definitions:
- To emit smoke; to smoke. Formerly also: †to send out or give off steam or vapour (obsolete).
- To expose to smoke, especially (in earlier use) in order to cleanse, cure, or dry; to fumigate; to smoke.
- To smoke (a beehive, wasp's nest, etc.); to suffocate (bees) with smoke; to drive out (an animal) using smoke. Also with out: to smoke out.
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Origin
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Old English; earliest use found in Medicina de Quadrupedibus. Probably cognate with Middle Dutch smieken to smoulder, to emit smoke, German regional (Bavaria) schmiehen to smoulder, to turn into ash from an ablaut variant (e-grade) of the Germanic base of smoke (which shows zero-grade of the base)
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