What is the difference between smoky and dampish?
smoky | dampish |
Filled with or giving off smoke.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Of a colour or colour pattern similar to that of smoke.
* 2014 , Janet Mock, Redefining Realness
Having a flavour like smoke.
(music, informal) Having a dark, thick, bass sound.
(obsolete) Suspicious; open to suspicion.
(obsolete) Characterised by noxious vapours; misty, smoky.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.iv:
Moderately damp or moist.
As adjectives the difference between smoky and dampish
is that smoky is filled with smoke while dampish is (obsolete) characterised by noxious vapours; misty, smoky.smoky
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* smokeyAdjective
(er)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.
- 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.
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dampish
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Adjective
(en adjective)- All suddenly dim woxe the dampish ayre, / And griesly shadowes couered heauen bright [...].