smokey vs smoky

smoky

Definitions

adjective

  1. marked by or emitting or filled with smoke
  2. tasting of smoke

Examples

The air had grown thick and smoky.

The common basis of all gumbos is the roux, a roughly equal combination of flour and fat cooked until very nearly burnt; it is the dark smoky roux that gives the gumbo its colour and flavour.

But Ngurn's father, wrapped in decaying grass-matting and hanging even then over their heads among the smoky rafters of the devil-devil house, had held otherwise.

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