Top definition. People who constantly tell you what you WANT to hear Feeding someone's ego with constant adoration and commentary. Telling someone everything they want to hear and nothing they need to hear. Im not blowing smoke up your ass!!!! I wish I could be just like you

To "blow smoke" has had a few definitions over the years, and the end of the phrase as well as its meaning varies. You can "blow smoke in someone's face" to obfuscate a situation. You can "blow smoke" to lie or exaggerate the truth.

According to Gizmodo , one of the earliest reports of such a practice took place in England in , when a woman was left unconscious after nearly drowning. Her husband allegedly took the suggestion of administering a tobacco enema to revive her, a practice that was rising in popularity at the time as a possible answer to the frequent, local instances of drowning. As strange as it may sound today, it reportedly worked, the hot embers of the tobacco leaf jolting the wife back into consciousness, and the practice grew quickly from there.