smish

English

Etymology

From earlier slang commission, from chemise or related.

Noun

smish (plural smishes)

1. (UK, slang, obsolete) A shirt or chemise.
   • 2018, Jordy Rosenberg, Confessions of the Fox:

     He awoke shivering, his heart racing. His smish was soak'd.

References

• John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary

Verb

smish (third-person singular simple present smishes, present participle smishing, simple past and past participle smished)

1. (slang) to squash, to squish
   • 2014, Caroline Lawrence, The Case of the Bogus Detective: Book 4:

     'NOBODY MOVE' CRIED MARK TWAIN. 'I WILL SMISH the varmint. He grabbed an iron plate from the stove.

See also

• smishing

Anagrams

• Shims, shims