Smokingとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From 中期英語 smokynge, smokiende, from 古期英語 smociende (“smoking”), from Proto-Germanic *smukōndz (“emitting smoke, smoking”), equivalent to smoke +‎ -ing.

動詞

smoking

1. present participle and gerund of smoke

形容詞

smoking (comparative more smoking, superlative most smoking)

1. Giving off smoke.
   • 2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 43:

     Yet had the whole train and all its bombs gone, had the engine crew merely jumped from the train and run as simple self-preservation would have suggested, or unhitched just the engine to make their escape faster, the whole town would have gone and most of the people with it, leaving just a smoking wasteland. Hundreds would have died.

2. (slang) Sexually attractive, usually referring to a woman.

   That woman is smoking!

3. (slang) Showing great skill or talent.

   The band put on a smoking performance.

派生語

語源 2

From 中期英語 smokyng, smokynge, equivalent to smoke +‎ -ing.

名詞

smoking (countable and uncountable, plural smokings)

1. The act or process of emitting smoke.
2. The burning and inhalation of tobacco.

   Smoking can lead to lung cancer.

   • 2012, Montgomery J. Granger, Saving Grace at Guantanamo Bay: A Memoir of a Citizen Warrior:

     He had the loudest voice of any drill sergeant, and seemed to enjoy the group smokings as well as the individual smokings.

3. (by extension) The burning and inhalation of other substances, e.g. marijuana.
4. The act of exposing (something) to smoke; (by extension) the process by which foods are cured or flavored by smoke.
5. (slang, obsolete) A bantering; teasing; mockery.

派生語

参照

• “smoking”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.