Smoky vs Fuming - What's the difference?
smoky | fuming |
Filled with or giving off smoke.
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* 2014 , Janet Mock, Redefining Realness
Having a flavour like smoke.
(music, informal) Having a dark, thick, bass sound.
(obsolete) Suspicious; open to suspicion.
that fumes
very angry
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The act of one who fumes or shows suppressed anger.
* 1840 , The Monthly Magazine, Or, British Register
* 1986 , John B. Sanford, The Waters of Darkness
* 1949 , New Brunswick Laboratory, Assayer's Guide
As adjectives the difference between smoky and fuming
is that smoky is filled with or giving off smoke while fuming is that fumes.As a verb fuming is
.As a noun fuming is
the act of one who fumes or shows suppressed anger.smoky
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Alternative forms
* 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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fuming
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Verb
(head)Adjective
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Derived terms
* fuming sulphuric acidNoun
(en noun)- He fumed, and threatened, and stormed; but his fumings , and threatenings, and stormings, were powerless to turn from him the keen edge of public ridicule.
- And endlessly you'd read his fumings against the running dogs of capitalism, against the lackeys and the lumpen — and against you for being unable to collect a bill from his debtor.
- Evaporate, fume again, cool and wash down the sides of the beaker and watch glass, and then fume again. Your fumings are necessary to remove the cupferron decomposition products and nitric acid from the solution.