smoaky

comparative more smoaky · superlative most smoaky

1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of smoky.

   Dark was the Path, and difficult, and ſteep, And thick with Vapours from the ſmoaky Deep.

   1717, William Congreve, “Book X. [The Story of Orpheus and Eurydice.]”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 334

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   [W]e […] never had better fires in England, then in the dry, ſmoaky houſes of Kecoughtan: […]

   1624, Richard Pots; William Tankard; G. P.; William Simons, compiler, “Chap. VIII. Captaine Smiths Iourney to Pamavnkee.”, in Iohn [i.e., John] Smith, The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles: […], London: […] I[ohn] D[awson] and I[ohn] H[aviland] for Michael Sparkes, →OCLC, 3rd booke, page 74

   [S]crambling with ſuch diſtracted violence for the ſmoaky honours, the nominal wealth, the intoxicating pleaſures of a few haſty daies, […]

   1658 March 2 (Gregorian calendar), Richard Baxter, “The Preface: To the Nobility and Gentry, and All That Have the Riches of This World”, in The Crucifying of the World, by the Cross of Christ. […], London: […] R. W. for Nevill Simmons […] and by Nathaniel Ekins […], →OCLC, signature [b4], verso

   [T]his old brother of ours tho’ is ſmoaky and ſhrewd, and tho’ an odd, a ſenſible fellow; […]

   1765, Samuel Foote, The Commissary. A Comedy […], London: […] P[aul] Vaillant, […], →OCLC, Act I, page 20

   [S]ome Dutch officers complained that the ſoup was ſmoaky, and the beef was tough, we adventurers declared that we never had taſted a more delicious repaſt; […]

   1796, J[ohn] G[abriel] Stedman, chapter XXX, in Narrative of a Five Years’ Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the Wild Coast of South America; […], volume II, London: J[oseph] Johnson, […], and J. Edwards, […], →OCLC, page 392