Sc. and north. Forms: 6 smooke, 9 smook; 6 smowk, smewk (8 smuke), 9 smuik. [prob. ad. Flem. smuiken, smuken (Kilian smuycken, earlier smuucken), obscurely related to SMOKE v.] intr. and trans. To smoke, in various senses. Hence Smooking vbl. sb. and ppl. a.
1500–20. Dunbar, Poems, xxxiii. 56. On him come nowthir stole nor fannoun, For smowking of the smydy.
c. 1520. Nisbet, N. T., Matt. xii. 20. He sal … nocht slokin a smewkand brand.
1570. Levins, Manip., 159/34. To Smooke, fumare.
1802. R. Anderson, Cumbld. Ball. (c. 1850), 49. Auld Marget in the fauld she sits, And spins, and sings, and smuiks by fits.
1825. Jamieson, Suppl., To Smook, Smuik, to suffocate by means of sulphur; a term applied to the barbarous mode of destroying bees in order to gain their honey.
