smock
English
Etymology
From Old English smoc; akin to Old High German smocho, Icelandic smokkr, and from the root of Old English smgan (“to creep”), akin to German schmiegen (“to cling to, press close”). Middle High German smiegen, Icelandic smjga (“to creep through, to put on a garment which has a hole to put the head through”); compare with Lithuanian smukti (“to glide”). See also smug, smuggle.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɒk
Noun
smock (plural smocks)
- A woman's undergarment; a shift; a chemise.
- 14th century, Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, The Clerk's Prologue and Tale
- Before the folk herselfe stripped she,
- And in her smock, with foot and head all bare,
- Toward her father's house forth is she fare.
- 14th century, Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, The Clerk's Prologue and Tale
- A blouse; a smock frock.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Carlyle to this entry?)
- A loose garment worn as protection by a painter, etc.
Translations
undergarment
a blouse
a loose garment worn as protection
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Adjective
smock (not comparable)
- Of or pertaining to a smock; resembling a smock
- Hence, of or pertaining to a woman.
Derived terms
- smock mill
- smock race
Verb
smock (third-person singular simple present smocks, present participle smocking, simple past and past participle smocked)
- (transitive) To provide with, or clothe in, a smock or a smock frock. Alfred Tennyson.
- (transitive) To apply smocking.
References
- smock in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913