second handn.adj.

Forms: Also second-hand.

Etymology: Compare hand n. 25a(a), French de seconde main , and first hand n., adj., and adv.

A. n. (second hand.)

†1. In substantive use: The second in a series of persons through whose hands something passes; an intermediary, middleman. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [noun] > intermediate agency > intermediate means > person as

dealerc1000

meanc1384

mediatorc1390

moyen1455

intermediator1522

broker1530

middlera1533

intercessor1554

mercury1602

intermedial1605

transactor1611

interdealer1613

intermeddler1630

intercommuner1638

middleman1648

second hand1655

inter-agent1728

intermediary1791

in-between1815

medium1817

intermediate1879

come-between1919

tolkach1955

1655 Ld. Orrery Parthenissa IV. ii. v. 452 His absence..made him but from second hands, and confus'dly learne it.

1686 J. Scott Christian Life: Pt. II II. vii. 577 He doth not Mediate with him by a second hand, or at a distance, but in his own Person.

1727 A. Hamilton New Acct. E. Indies I. Pref. 14 Those Reports came..to him by Second or Third Hands.

2. In adverbial phrases.

a. at second hand (†also at the or a second hand, on the second hand): (to buy, receive, learn, etc.) from another than the maker, or original vendor (of goods), or the primary source (of information, etc.). In the 18th cent. also (? after French) to hear from second hand.In the first quot. as may be a mistake for at; but perhaps second hand may mean ‘second purchaser’.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > [adverb] > second-hand

at second hand1613

on the second hand1665

second hand1849

society > communication > information > action of informing > [adverb] > learn from other than original source

to hear from second hand1753

1474 Coventry Leet Bk. 401 Also the sise ys that no maner of man nor woman schall not stalle nor Regrate no markett..wher thorough the markett shuld be the Wers and the pore Comons gretely hurte to by as the ij^de honde.

1589 T. Nashe Anat. Absurditie sig. Bii^v Whose thredde-bare knowledge beeing bought at the second hand, is spotted..and defaced, through translaters rigorous rude dealing.

1589 ‘M. Marprelate’ Hay any Worke for Cooper 44 The substance of the tale is true. I told you that I had it at the second hand.

1613 Bodl. Day-bk. (MS.) lf. 18 A note of such Books as were bought at London of Jhon Edwards at second hand.

1634 H. Peacham Gentlemans Exercise (new ed.) 62 So that I may say the eye receives the forme of the object at a second hand, as it were from the medium.

1654 E. Nicholas Papers (1892) II. 2 You have done wisely to decline the correspondence of Sir Marm. Langdale at a second hand, thro' the consul's conveyance.

1665 T. H. Exact Surv. Affaires Netherlands 132 Cathay, where they are forced to take their Rye, Hemp,..and Musk, on the second hand of the Chinois.

1681 H. Dodwell Disc. Sanchoniathon's Phœn. Hist. 12 He quoted him by memory, and at the Second hand.

1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones I. iii. v. 184 For, to say the Truth, there is no kind of Flattery so irresistible as this, at second Hand .

1753 G. Washington Jrnl. in Writings (1889) I. 481 I have heard from second-hand, that they intend to make no allowance for the fish we left there.

1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple I. iii. 35 ‘Well, we don't want one of your father's sermons at second-hand,’ replied the midshipman.

†b. at the second hand: by a secondary operation. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > in operation [phrase] > by a secondary operation

at the second hand1545

1545 T. Raynald in tr. E. Roesslin Byrth of Mankynde i. sig. G^v The meat & drinck which we dayly do eate, by dygestion, fyrst of y^e stomack, the fyne iuyce, therof is seperatyd from y^e drosse & grosser part, & then after at y^e second hand, the foresaid iuyce..attract..in to the lyuer.., there transmutid in to blud.

†c. by second hand: through an intermediary, through another person as agent. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > by the instrumentality of [phrase] > through intermediate means

at (the) third hand1553

by way of1560

by second hand1721

1721 J. Swift Bubble 70 When Stock is high, they come between, Making by second-hand their Offers.

†d. of second hand = B. 1. [a Gallicism] .

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > [adjective] > not original or derivative

secondary1398

borrowed1571

third hand1598

denominative1624

second hand1654

second-handed1682

of second hand1708

unoriginal1749

uninventive1776

unoriginative1845

uncreative1855

hand-me-down1881

reach-me-down1907

cookie cutter1922

1708 Ld. Shaftesbury Let. conc. Enthusiasm vi. 67 There is a sort of Enthusiasm of second hand.

B. adj. (second-hand.) [The phrase used attributively.] Obtained at second hand.

1. Not original or obtained from the original source; plagiarized or borrowed; imitative, derivative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > [adjective] > not original or derivative

secondary1398

borrowed1571

third hand1598

denominative1624

second hand1654

second-handed1682

of second hand1708

unoriginal1749

uninventive1776

unoriginative1845

uncreative1855

hand-me-down1881

reach-me-down1907

cookie cutter1922

1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 143 If a man cloath his discourse in a Language that is not second hand English, or but one degree above..Caterwauling, why he is affected.

1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. p. xlvi The Waiting-Woman, who, if she hath been bred to read Romances, may have some small subaltern, or second-hand Politeness.

1781 R. B. Sheridan Critic i. i Are you not called..a mock Mæcenas to second-hand authors?

1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 323 You hold up, to chastise them, the second-hand authority of a king, who is only the instrument of destroying, without any power of protecting either the people or his own person.

1868 E. Edwards Life Sir W. Ralegh I. x. 163 Even of this second-hand knowledge there was very little.

1904 R. J. Farrer Garden of Asia 13 Second-hand impressions are as worthless as second-hand morality.

a. Not new, having been previously used or worn by another, as second-hand clothes, second-hand books, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > [adjective] > re-used > second-, etc., hand

fourth-hand1598

second hand1673

repossesseda1678

second-handed1682

third hand1862

used1874

resale1929

pre-owned1934

pre-loved1972

1673 W. Wycherley Gentleman Dancing-master v. 94 I will have no little, dirty, second-hand Charriot new forbish'd, but a large, sociable, well painted Coach.

1698 J. Crowne Caligula i. 4 Second-hand Cloaths he may as proudly wear.

1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker II. 201 The traitor..dazzled her with his second-hand finery.

1833 Act 3 & 4 William IV c. 46 §82 All persons so dealing in second-hand articles without being first duly licensed.

1862 (title) The Library Circular of New and Second-Hand Books.

1892 I. Zangwill Children of Ghetto I. 74 But a second-hand son-in-law of 22 is superior to many brand-new ones.

b. Said jocularly of food, with various notions.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > [noun] > meat > other types of meat

gross meatc1460

fish1607

crimp-meat1656

small meata1662

second hand1694

slink1736

soup-meat1841

box meat1856

sacrifice meat1926

MRM1980

1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais Pantagruel's Voy.: 4th Bk. Wks. iv. lxvii The Cupboard wherein second-hand-meat is kept [the bowels].

1862 A. Halliday in H. Mayhew London Labour (new ed.) Extra vol. 408/2 Miss Betsey would..enjoy whatever poultry or meat had not been touched; but anything that had been cut, anything ‘second-hand’, that dainty and haughty young lady would instruct her sister Kitty to give to the poor beggars.

1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 8 Sept. 12/1 What is technically called a ‘second-hand joint’, that is one that has had all its choice parts sliced off.

1893 R. S. Surtees Soapey Sponge's Sporting Tour (rev. ed.) xlvii. 250 The cook sent him a most moderate dinner, smoked soup, second-hand fish, scraggy cutlets, and sour pudding.

c. absol. or quasi-n. A second-hand book.

ΚΠ

1905 Westm. Gaz. 21 Oct. 18/2 If a book..doesn't get a good sale within the first two months, it is no good as a second-hand.

1966 J. B. Priestley Salt is Leaving i. 6 He might be going off to some auction sale—y'know, to buy some more secondhands.

3. second-hand bookseller, second-hand clothier, etc.: one dealing in second-hand goods. So second-hand bookselling, second-hand bookstall, second-hand shop, second-hand store, etc.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of books, newspapers, or pamphlets > types of

bawdy-basket1567

ballad-monger1598

land-pirate1608

map-monger1639

bookwoman1647

mercury1648

second-hand bookseller1656

Bible-seller1707

map-seller1710

stall-man1761

book auctioneer1776

scrap-monger1786

colporteur1796

death-hunter1851

train boy1852

speech-crier1856

roarer1865

looker-out1894

society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > second-hand shop

junk store1777

second-hand shop1795

rubbish shop1833

junk shop1838

thrift shop1947

second-hander1969

thrift store1972

1656 P. Heylyn Surv. Estate France 148 They call it their Library; for my part, I should have thought it to have been the warehouse of some second hand Bookseller.

1795 J.-B. Lechevalier Let. in W. B. Stevens Jrnl. 24 Sept. (1965) iii. 306 The old Plates, Plaisters, Sermons, Pieces of Iron, Brass and Copper that you purchased lately in that second hand Shop.

1862 Library Circular July 158 (advt.) Messrs. Tinsley Brothers,..Wholesale, Retail, and Second-hand Booksellers.

1875 L. Troubridge Jrnl. in Life amongst Troubridges (1966) 115 Here there were all sorts of things..old iron stalls, second-hand book stalls.

1886 C. E. Pascoe London of To-day (ed. 3) xxxix. 330 The head of the second-hand bookselling trade of London.

1904 Dial. Notes 2 421 You can get most anything at the second-hand store.

1942 Tee Emm (Air Ministry) 2 (recto rear cover) They may even end up on a second-hand bookstall.

1981 Country Life 16 July 205/1 A book very well worth looking out for in second-hand shops.

figurative.1902 Daily Chron. 3 Jan. 3/3 The modern second-hand dealers in popular criticism.

4. quasi-adv.= at second hand.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > [adverb] > second-hand

at second hand1613

on the second hand1665

second hand1849

1849 F. W. Robertson Serm. (1855) 1st Ser. x. 181 Maxims learned second-hand by rote and not by heart.

1910 S. Cook in Expositor Aug. 115 Babylonian culture could continue to reach Canaan secondhand.

Derivatives

secondˈhandiness n. appearance of being second-hand.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [noun] > condition of having lost freshness > shabbiness

shabbiness1711

seediness1832

secondhandinessa1849

down-at-heeledness1916

a1849 H. Coleridge Ess. & Marginalia (1851) II. 120 The staleness of their method and the second-handiness of their costume.

secondˈhandness n. rare.

ΚΠ

1886 F. W. Farrar Hist. Interpr. 225 Four serious drawbacks of overhaste, second-handness, vehement prejudice and incessant vacillation.

Draft additions September 2008

secondhand smoke n. the smoke from another person's cigarette, etc., esp. as inhaled involuntarily (particularly by a non-smoker); cf. passive smoke n. at passive adj. and n. Compounds.

ΚΠ

1891 Cambr. City (Indiana) Tribune 15 Oct. 4/1 (heading) Secondhand smoke... It wasn't long before Ira declared that he got just as much enjoyment from his smoke at secondhand.

1896 Forest & Stream 9 May 377/3 As I do not smoke, the Judge would invariably inflict upon me a second-hand smoke by getting to windward of me.

1933 Los Angeles Times 8 Apr. ii. 8/2 She is..forgetful of the fact that the second-hand smoke really poisons the nonsmokers who have to inhale it.

2007 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 16 Mar. a15/2 They measured for levels of cotinine—a breakdown product of nicotine—which is a standard scientific test for gauging contact with second-hand smoke.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	second hand
释义	second handn.adj. Forms: Also second-hand. Etymology: Compare hand n. 25a(a), French de seconde main , and first hand n., adj., and adv. A. n. (second hand.) †1. In substantive use: The second in a series of persons through whose hands something passes; an intermediary, middleman. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [noun] > intermediate agency > intermediate means > person as dealerc1000 meanc1384 mediatorc1390 moyen1455 intermediator1522 broker1530 middlera1533 intercessor1554 mercury1602 intermedial1605 transactor1611 interdealer1613 intermeddler1630 intercommuner1638 middleman1648 second hand1655 inter-agent1728 intermediary1791 in-between1815 medium1817 intermediate1879 come-between1919 tolkach1955 1655 Ld. Orrery Parthenissa IV. ii. v. 452 His absence..made him but from second hands, and confus'dly learne it. 1686 J. Scott Christian Life: Pt. II II. vii. 577 He doth not Mediate with him by a second hand, or at a distance, but in his own Person. 1727 A. Hamilton New Acct. E. Indies I. Pref. 14 Those Reports came..to him by Second or Third Hands. 2. In adverbial phrases. a. at second hand (†also at the or a second hand, on the second hand): (to buy, receive, learn, etc.) from another than the maker, or original vendor (of goods), or the primary source (of information, etc.). In the 18th cent. also (? after French) to hear from second hand.In the first quot. as may be a mistake for at; but perhaps second hand may mean ‘second purchaser’. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > [adverb] > second-hand at second hand1613 on the second hand1665 second hand1849 society > communication > information > action of informing > [adverb] > learn from other than original source to hear from second hand1753 1474 Coventry Leet Bk. 401 Also the sise ys that no maner of man nor woman schall not stalle nor Regrate no markett..wher thorough the markett shuld be the Wers and the pore Comons gretely hurte to by as the ij^de honde. 1589 T. Nashe Anat. Absurditie sig. Bii^v Whose thredde-bare knowledge beeing bought at the second hand, is spotted..and defaced, through translaters rigorous rude dealing. 1589 ‘M. Marprelate’ Hay any Worke for Cooper 44 The substance of the tale is true. I told you that I had it at the second hand. 1613 Bodl. Day-bk. (MS.) lf. 18 A note of such Books as were bought at London of Jhon Edwards at second hand. 1634 H. Peacham Gentlemans Exercise (new ed.) 62 So that I may say the eye receives the forme of the object at a second hand, as it were from the medium. 1654 E. Nicholas Papers (1892) II. 2 You have done wisely to decline the correspondence of Sir Marm. Langdale at a second hand, thro' the consul's conveyance. 1665 T. H. Exact Surv. Affaires Netherlands 132 Cathay, where they are forced to take their Rye, Hemp,..and Musk, on the second hand of the Chinois. 1681 H. Dodwell Disc. Sanchoniathon's Phœn. Hist. 12 He quoted him by memory, and at the Second hand. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones I. iii. v. 184 For, to say the Truth, there is no kind of Flattery so irresistible as this, at second Hand . View more context for this quotation 1753 G. Washington Jrnl. in Writings (1889) I. 481 I have heard from second-hand, that they intend to make no allowance for the fish we left there. 1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple I. iii. 35 ‘Well, we don't want one of your father's sermons at second-hand,’ replied the midshipman. †b. at the second hand: by a secondary operation. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > in operation [phrase] > by a secondary operation at the second hand1545 1545 T. Raynald in tr. E. Roesslin Byrth of Mankynde i. sig. G^v The meat & drinck which we dayly do eate, by dygestion, fyrst of y^e stomack, the fyne iuyce, therof is seperatyd from y^e drosse & grosser part, & then after at y^e second hand, the foresaid iuyce..attract..in to the lyuer.., there transmutid in to blud. †c. by second hand: through an intermediary, through another person as agent. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > by the instrumentality of [phrase] > through intermediate means at (the) third hand1553 by way of1560 by second hand1721 1721 J. Swift Bubble 70 When Stock is high, they come between, Making by second-hand their Offers. †d. of second hand = B. 1. [a Gallicism] . ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > [adjective] > not original or derivative secondary1398 borrowed1571 third hand1598 denominative1624 second hand1654 second-handed1682 of second hand1708 unoriginal1749 uninventive1776 unoriginative1845 uncreative1855 hand-me-down1881 reach-me-down1907 cookie cutter1922 1708 Ld. Shaftesbury Let. conc. Enthusiasm vi. 67 There is a sort of Enthusiasm of second hand. B. adj. (second-hand.) [The phrase used attributively.] Obtained at second hand. 1. Not original or obtained from the original source; plagiarized or borrowed; imitative, derivative. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > [adjective] > not original or derivative secondary1398 borrowed1571 third hand1598 denominative1624 second hand1654 second-handed1682 of second hand1708 unoriginal1749 uninventive1776 unoriginative1845 uncreative1855 hand-me-down1881 reach-me-down1907 cookie cutter1922 1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 143 If a man cloath his discourse in a Language that is not second hand English, or but one degree above..Caterwauling, why he is affected. 1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. p. xlvi The Waiting-Woman, who, if she hath been bred to read Romances, may have some small subaltern, or second-hand Politeness. 1781 R. B. Sheridan Critic i. i Are you not called..a mock Mæcenas to second-hand authors? 1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 323 You hold up, to chastise them, the second-hand authority of a king, who is only the instrument of destroying, without any power of protecting either the people or his own person. View more context for this quotation 1868 E. Edwards Life Sir W. Ralegh I. x. 163 Even of this second-hand knowledge there was very little. 1904 R. J. Farrer Garden of Asia 13 Second-hand impressions are as worthless as second-hand morality. 2. a. Not new, having been previously used or worn by another, as second-hand clothes, second-hand books, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > [adjective] > re-used > second-, etc., hand fourth-hand1598 second hand1673 repossesseda1678 second-handed1682 third hand1862 used1874 resale1929 pre-owned1934 pre-loved1972 1673 W. Wycherley Gentleman Dancing-master v. 94 I will have no little, dirty, second-hand Charriot new forbish'd, but a large, sociable, well painted Coach. 1698 J. Crowne Caligula i. 4 Second-hand Cloaths he may as proudly wear. 1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker II. 201 The traitor..dazzled her with his second-hand finery. 1833 Act 3 & 4 William IV c. 46 §82 All persons so dealing in second-hand articles without being first duly licensed. 1862 (title) The Library Circular of New and Second-Hand Books. 1892 I. Zangwill Children of Ghetto I. 74 But a second-hand son-in-law of 22 is superior to many brand-new ones. b. Said jocularly of food, with various notions. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > [noun] > meat > other types of meat gross meatc1460 fish1607 crimp-meat1656 small meata1662 second hand1694 slink1736 soup-meat1841 box meat1856 sacrifice meat1926 MRM1980 1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais Pantagruel's Voy.: 4th Bk. Wks. iv. lxvii The Cupboard wherein second-hand-meat is kept [the bowels]. 1862 A. Halliday in H. Mayhew London Labour (new ed.) Extra vol. 408/2 Miss Betsey would..enjoy whatever poultry or meat had not been touched; but anything that had been cut, anything ‘second-hand’, that dainty and haughty young lady would instruct her sister Kitty to give to the poor beggars. 1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 8 Sept. 12/1 What is technically called a ‘second-hand joint’, that is one that has had all its choice parts sliced off. 1893 R. S. Surtees Soapey Sponge's Sporting Tour (rev. ed.) xlvii. 250 The cook sent him a most moderate dinner, smoked soup, second-hand fish, scraggy cutlets, and sour pudding. c. absol. or quasi-n. A second-hand book. ΚΠ 1905 Westm. Gaz. 21 Oct. 18/2 If a book..doesn't get a good sale within the first two months, it is no good as a second-hand. 1966 J. B. Priestley Salt is Leaving i. 6 He might be going off to some auction sale—y'know, to buy some more secondhands. 3. second-hand bookseller, second-hand clothier, etc.: one dealing in second-hand goods. So second-hand bookselling, second-hand bookstall, second-hand shop, second-hand store, etc. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of books, newspapers, or pamphlets > types of bawdy-basket1567 ballad-monger1598 land-pirate1608 map-monger1639 bookwoman1647 mercury1648 second-hand bookseller1656 Bible-seller1707 map-seller1710 stall-man1761 book auctioneer1776 scrap-monger1786 colporteur1796 death-hunter1851 train boy1852 speech-crier1856 roarer1865 looker-out1894 society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > second-hand shop junk store1777 second-hand shop1795 rubbish shop1833 junk shop1838 thrift shop1947 second-hander1969 thrift store1972 1656 P. Heylyn Surv. Estate France 148 They call it their Library; for my part, I should have thought it to have been the warehouse of some second hand Bookseller. 1795 J.-B. Lechevalier Let. in W. B. Stevens Jrnl. 24 Sept. (1965) iii. 306 The old Plates, Plaisters, Sermons, Pieces of Iron, Brass and Copper that you purchased lately in that second hand Shop. 1862 Library Circular July 158 (advt.) Messrs. Tinsley Brothers,..Wholesale, Retail, and Second-hand Booksellers. 1875 L. Troubridge Jrnl. in Life amongst Troubridges (1966) 115 Here there were all sorts of things..old iron stalls, second-hand book stalls. 1886 C. E. Pascoe London of To-day (ed. 3) xxxix. 330 The head of the second-hand bookselling trade of London. 1904 Dial. Notes 2 421 You can get most anything at the second-hand store. 1942 Tee Emm (Air Ministry) 2 (recto rear cover) They may even end up on a second-hand bookstall. 1981 Country Life 16 July 205/1 A book very well worth looking out for in second-hand shops. figurative.1902 Daily Chron. 3 Jan. 3/3 The modern second-hand dealers in popular criticism. 4. quasi-adv.= at second hand. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > [adverb] > second-hand at second hand1613 on the second hand1665 second hand1849 1849 F. W. Robertson Serm. (1855) 1st Ser. x. 181 Maxims learned second-hand by rote and not by heart. 1910 S. Cook in Expositor Aug. 115 Babylonian culture could continue to reach Canaan secondhand. Derivatives secondˈhandiness n. appearance of being second-hand. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [noun] > condition of having lost freshness > shabbiness shabbiness1711 seediness1832 secondhandinessa1849 down-at-heeledness1916 a1849 H. Coleridge Ess. & Marginalia (1851) II. 120 The staleness of their method and the second-handiness of their costume. secondˈhandness n. rare. ΚΠ 1886 F. W. Farrar Hist. Interpr. 225 Four serious drawbacks of overhaste, second-handness, vehement prejudice and incessant vacillation. Draft additions September 2008 secondhand smoke n. the smoke from another person's cigarette, etc., esp. as inhaled involuntarily (particularly by a non-smoker); cf. passive smoke n. at passive adj. and n. Compounds. ΚΠ 1891 Cambr. City (Indiana) Tribune 15 Oct. 4/1 (heading) Secondhand smoke... It wasn't long before Ira declared that he got just as much enjoyment from his smoke at secondhand. 1896 Forest & Stream 9 May 377/3 As I do not smoke, the Judge would invariably inflict upon me a second-hand smoke by getting to windward of me. 1933 Los Angeles Times 8 Apr. ii. 8/2 She is..forgetful of the fact that the second-hand smoke really poisons the nonsmokers who have to inhale it. 2007 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 16 Mar. a15/2 They measured for levels of cotinine—a breakdown product of nicotine—which is a standard scientific test for gauging contact with second-hand smoke. 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