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presmoking

adj

Etymology

From pre- + smoking.

  1. inherited from *smukōndz✻ — “emitting smoke, smoking”
  2. inherited from smociende — “smoking”
  3. inherited from smokynge
  4. prefixed as presmoking — “pre + smoking”

Definitions

  1. Before smoking a cigarette etc.

    • In the placebo condition, heart rate decreased consistently from presmoking levels.
    • Stewart and Livson (129) had access to records from the presmoking years from kindergarten through high school, of smokers and nonsmokers at age 30.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for presmoking. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA