See also: Smouse

English

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from German schmausen (to feast).[1]

Verb

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smouse (third-person singular simple present smouses, present participle smousing, simple past and past participle smoused)

  1. (intransitive, transitive, archaic) To feast (on something).
    • 1775, [Francis Blackburne], A Few Strictures on the Confessional: [], London: T. Payne, page 12:
      "Here, Honeſty, take this bill of fare: here is a liſt of ſome plain diſhes, which I ſhall neyer be averſe from; and which I could ſafely venture to ſmouze plentifully upon."
    • 1839, Aristophanes, translated by J[ohn] Hookham Frere, The Acharnians and Two Other Plays of Aristophanes;, London: J. M. Dent & Co.; New York, N.Y.: E. P. Dutton & Co., published 1909, page 149:
      On the summer berries brousing, / On the garden fruits carousing, / All the grubs and vermin smousing.
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Etymology 2

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Noun

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smouse (plural smouses)

  1. Alternative form of smous

Verb

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smouse (third-person singular simple present smouses, present participle smousing, simple past and past participle smoused)

  1. Alternative form of smous

References

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  1. ^ smouse, v.”, in OED Online  , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

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