smoky

1. (of a person's voice) Having a deep, raspy quality, often as a result of smoking tobacco.Examples: "“Stop the York four-day stage!” said he, forcing his smoky voice through a world of throat-embracing shawl […]"; "Father laughed his smoky laugh. […] The smoky laughter like a bridge between them over your head."

2. (music) Having a dark, thick, bass sound.Examples: "a few smoky jazz notes"; "1962, Philip Larkin, “Billie’s Golden Years,” The Daily Telegraph, 17 October, 1962, republished in All What Jazz: A Record Diary, 1961—1971, New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1985, p. 73, […] the sombre and magnificent Davis fronts both his Quartet and Gil Evans’s orchestra, pouring out a succession of smoky and sonorous solos […]"; "The organ took on a dark, smoky sonority at evening service, and there was no doubt that the organ was adapting its normal sounds to accompany God’s own sepulchral responses […] to those prayers that were offered to him."

3. (obsolete) Giving off steam or vapour.Examples: "1594, Thomas Kyd (translator), Cornelia (Cornélie) by Robert Garnier, London: Nicholas Ling and John Busbie, Act V, He wrencht it [his sword] to the pommel through his sides, That fro the wound the smoky blood ran bubling, Where-with he staggred;"; "Dark was the Path, and difficult, and steep, And thick with Vapours from the smoaky Deep."obsolete

4. (obsolete) Obscuring or insubstantial like smoke.Examples: "[…] to shewe them selfe playnely, to hate & deteste and abhorre vtterly, the pestylent contagyon of all suche smoky communycacyon."; "If besides vayne crakes of smoky speeches, ye shewe no demonstration of sounde proofe, why these bragges of yours should be true, let vs graunt your saying."; "[…] scrambling with such distracted violence for the smoaky honours, the nominal wealth, the intoxicating pleasures of a few hasty daies […]"obsolete

5. (obsolete) Suspicious; open to suspicion; jealous.Examples: "1765, Samuel Foote, The Commissary, Act I, in The Works of Samuel Foote, London: George Robinson et al., 1799, Volume 2, p. 18, […] this old brother of ours tho’ is smoky and shrewd, and tho’ an odd, a sensible fellow;"obsolete