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Smoking vs Presmoking - What's the difference?

smoking | presmoking |

As a noun smoking

is tuxedo, dinner suit.

As an adjective presmoking is

before smoking a cigarette etc.

smoking

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

  • The burning and inhalation of tobacco.
    • Smoking is permitted.
  • (by extension) The burning and inhalation of other substances, e.g. marijuana.

    • Derived terms

    * smoking car, smoking carriage, smoking compartment * smoking gun * smoking jacket * smoking room

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Giving off smoke.
  • (slang) Sexually attractive, usually referring to a woman.
    • That woman is smoking !

    Derived terms

    * smoking gun * smoking hot

    presmoking

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Before smoking a cigarette etc.
  • * 1972 , New York Academy of Sciences, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volumes 190-191 (page 211)
    • In the placebo condition, heart rate decreased consistently from presmoking levels.
  • * 1982 , Fred Leavitt, Drugs and behavior (page 185)
    • Stewart and Livson (129) had access to records from the presmoking years from kindergarten through high school, of smokers and nonsmokers at age 30.