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Word of the Day – Smaze

By October 28, 2023Word of the Day

Smaze (noun)

smayz

a mixture of haze and smoke.

Smaze was first recorded around 1950–55 and is a portmanteau, a combination, of the words smoke and haze. Smoke was first recorded before 1000 and is from an Old English word, smoca. Haze was first recorded in 1700–10 and comes perhaps from a variant of the Old English word haswa, “ashen, dusky.”

Example sentences

“We could hardly see the way for the smaze.”

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