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.”
