smock
See also: Smock
English
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English smok, from Old English smocc, smoc, from Proto-Germanic *smukkaz (“something slipped into”); akin to Old High German smocho, Icelandic smokkur, and from the root of Old English smugan (“to creep”), akin to German schmiegen (“to cling to, press close”). Middle High German smiegen, Icelandic smjúga (“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
edit- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /smɒk/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /smɑk/
- Rhymes: -ɒk
Noun
editsmock (plural smocks)
- A type of undergarment worn by women; a shift or slip.
- c. 1960s' (version), 14th century (originally published), Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, The Clerk's Prologue and Tale
- Before the folk herself stripped she,
- And in her smock, with foot and head all bare,
- Toward her father's house forth is she fare.
- c. 1960s' (version), 14th century (originally published), Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, The Clerk's Prologue and Tale
- A blouse; a smock frock.
- 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History:
- And women were in that gabarre [boat]; whom the Red Nightcaps were stripping naked; who begged, in their agony, that their smocks might not be stript from them.
- A loose garment worn as protection by a painter, etc.
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editTranslations
editundergarment
a blouse
a loose garment worn as protection
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Adjective
editsmock (not comparable)
- Of or pertaining to a smock; resembling a smock
- Hence, of or pertaining to a woman.
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editVerb
editsmock (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.
- (transitive, sewing) To apply smocking.
Derived terms
editReferences
edit- “smock”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
editYola
editEtymology
editFrom early Middle English smoc, from Old English smoca.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editsmock
Derived terms
editReferences
edit- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 68
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