煙鬼

烟鬼
yānguǐ
  1. heavy smoker
  2. chain smoker

CEDICT

  1. heavy smoker; chain smoker
  2. opium addict

Wiktionary

譏稱吸毒成癮的人。今亦稱抽香菸量大的人。

重編國語辭典

Entry Composition

1 煙 yān
  1. cigarette or pipe tobacco
  2. smoke
  3. mist
  4. vapour
  5. tobacco plant
  6. (of the eyes) to be irritated by smoke

classifiers: 根, 縷
2 鬼 guǐ
  1. disembodied spirit; ghost; devil
  2. (suffix) person with a certain vice or addiction etc
  3. sly; crafty; resourceful (variant of 詭 guǐ)
  4. one of the 28 constellations of ancient Chinese astronomy

Containing this entry

老煙鬼 lǎoyānguǐ
  1. heavy smoker
  2. chain smoker

Related entries

老煙槍 lǎoyānqiāng
  1. heavy smoker
  2. chain smoker
  3. life-long smoker
老煙鬼 lǎoyānguǐ
  1. heavy smoker
  2. chain smoker
癮君子 yǐnjūnzǐ
  1. opium eater
  2. drug addict
  3. chain smoker
不是每個癮君子都有創傷；不過有創傷的人變少，癮君子也會變少。

Not every addict is traumatized, but there would be a lot fewer addicts if a lot fewer people were traumatized.

Source: Tatoeba