▪ I. smook, n. Sc. and north. Now rare.
(smuk)
Also 6 smooke; Sc. smowk, smuke, smuik(e, smeuk, smewk.
[prob. ad. older Flem. smuik (Kilian smuyck): cf. next.]
Smoke, reek, vapour.
| α 1500–20 Dunbar Poems xxvi. 120 He smorit thame with smvke [v.r. a smuik]. 1549 Compl. Scot. vi. 42 The reik, smeuk, and the stink of the gun puldir. 1599 A. Hume Hymns v. 8 The altar..is sprinkled be the Iew, He makis a smuike. |
| β a 1548 Hall Chron., Hen. VIII, 41 b, Of the fyer and smolder did ryse suche a smooke. 1570 Levins Manip. 159/31 Y⊇ Smooke, fumus. 1600 Fairfax Tasso i. xxii, Of glorie vaine to gaine an idle smooke [rimes forsook, betooke]. |
▪ II. smook, v. Sc. and north.
(smuk)
Forms: 6 smooke, 9 smook; 6 smowk, smewk (8 smuke), 9 smuik.
[prob. ad. Flem. smuiken, smuken (Kilian smuycken, earlier smuucken), obscurely related to smoke v.]
intr. and trans. To smoke, in various senses. Hence ˈsmooking, vbl. n. and ppl. a.
| 1500–20 Dunbar Poems xxxiii. 56 On him come nowthir stole nor fannoun, For smowking of the smydy. c 1520 Nisbet N.T., Matt. xii. 20 He sal..nocht slokin a smewkand brand. 1570 Levins Manip. 159/34 To Smooke, fumare. 1802 R. Anderson Cumbld. Ball. (c 1850) 49 Auld Marget in the fauld she sits, And spins, and sings, and smuiks by fits. 1825 Jamieson Suppl., To Smook, Smuik, to suffocate by means of sulphur; a term applied to the barbarous mode of destroying bees in order to gain their honey. |