Smokies
- noun
- UK
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smokies
- We enjoyed a delicious meal of smokies with freshly baked bread.
We'll all cook smokies together, have some beers, laugh.
- We'll all cook smokies together, have some beers, laugh.
Examples
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The local market sells freshly prepared smokies that are perfect for breakfast.
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For our picnic, we brought some smokies and a bottle of white wine.
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We'll all cook smokies together, have some beers, laugh.
Synonyms
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A small silvery fish that moves between sea and rivers to lay eggs
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A small oily fish often eaten smoked or canned
Smoked haddock often eaten as food in Scotland
A small fatty fish like a sardine often smoked or canned
A small thin silver fish found in European rivers and coasts with a mild taste
A small silvery fish found in the sea and rivers of northern Europe
A small silvery fish from rivers and coasts of eastern North America and Alaska eaten as food
A small silvery fish from North America that lives in fresh and coastal waters and is often eaten as food
Compounds
- Informal
A group of mountains on the border of North Carolina and Tennessee in the southeastern United States
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word Smokies for the small Scottish fish comes from the English word smoke, because the fish are cooked and flavoured by 'smoke' in a traditional way from Arbroath, Scotland. So Smokies simply means 'smoked' fish.