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Smoky vs Peating - What's the difference?

smoky | peating |

As an adjective smoky

is filled with or giving off smoke.

As a noun peating is

kilning over burning peat, a process used in whisky production to impart an earthy, smoky flavour.

smoky

English

Alternative forms

* smokey

Adjective

(er)
  • Filled with or giving off smoke.
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    • , 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.
    • (Foote)

    peating

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • Kilning over burning peat, a process used in whisky production to impart an earthy, smoky flavour.

    • Related terms

    * peated, unpeated