Adjective

(en adjective)

reminiscent of choking

* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=Samuel Hopkins Adams, title=From a Bench in Our Square, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=It's worse," gulped a choky voice. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1909, author=W.W. Jacobs, title=Sailor's Knots (Entire Collection), chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=He's won it!" he ses, in a choky voice. " }}

Adjective

(er)

Filled with or giving off smoke.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Yesterday’s fuel , passage=The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania.

Of a colour or colour pattern similar to that of smoke.

* 2014 , Janet Mock, Redefining Realness

The saleswomen, with their all-black ensembles and smoky eyelids, were as open and affirming as the sight of RuPaul's spread legs in the Viva Glam lipstick ads.

Having a flavour like smoke.

(music, informal) Having a dark, thick, bass sound.

(obsolete) Suspicious; open to suspicion.

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