scomfish

English

Etymology

From scomfit, from discomfit.

Verb

scomfish (third-person singular simple present scomfishes, present participle scomfishing, simple past and past participle scomfished)

1. (transitive, UK, Scotland, dialect) To suffocate or stifle; to smother.
2. (intransitive, UK, Scotland, dialect) To be suffocated or stifled.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “scomfish”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)