smore
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Etymology 1 edit
See smoor.
Verb edit
smore (third-person singular simple present smores, present participle smoring, simple past and past participle smored)
- (obsolete, transitive) To smother.
- 1584, Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, translated by Thomas Hudson, Judith:
- Some dying vomit blood, and some were smored.
- 16th century, unknown writer, untitled ballad
- Loud, loud cried out the bonnie son,
Stood at the nurse's knee,
"Gie our your house, my mother dear,"
The reek is smoring me!"
- Loud, loud cried out the bonnie son,
References edit
- “smore”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
smore (plural smores)
- (nonstandard) Alternative spelling of s'more
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smore
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Etymology edit
From Middle English smoren, from Old English smorian (“to smother, suffocate, choke”).
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
smore (simple past smort, past participle ee-smort)
- to smother
References 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