smout
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Noun edit
smout (plural smouts)
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smout (third-person singular simple present smouts, present participle smouting, simple past and past participle smouted)
- (dated, intransitive) To do occasional work.
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Etymology edit
From Middle Dutch smout (“melted animal fat, oil”), from Old Dutch *smalt, from Proto-West Germanic *smalt, from Proto-Germanic *smaltą.
Cognate with Limburgish smout, West Flemish smout, Zealandic smout, Middle Low German smalt, Old High German smalz, Middle High German smalz, Plautdietsch Schmolt, German Schmalz, Bavarian Schmoiz, Cimbrian smaltz, Hunsrik Schmals, Luxembourgish Schmalz, Pennsylvania German Schmals, Yiddish שמאַלץ (shmalts).
More distantly related to Old English smolt, Old Norse smolt, Icelandic smolt, Norwegian Bokmål smult.
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smout n (plural smouten, diminutive smoutje n)
- melted and solidified animal fat
- Synonym: reuzel
- any type of melted and solidified fat
- (rare) any type of oil
- Synonym: olie
- type of melted and solidified lard, often sweetened with sugar or another additive, used as bread spread
- Synonym: reuzel
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Middle Dutch edit
Etymology edit
from Old Dutch *smalt, from Proto-West Germanic *smalt.
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smout n
- melted animal fat
- any type of oil or semi-liquid fat
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Further reading edit
- “smout”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “smout (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I
West Flemish edit
Etymology edit
From Middle Dutch smout (“melted animal fat, oil”), from Old Dutch *smalt, from Proto-West Germanic *smalt.
Noun edit
smout n
- type of melted and solidified lard, often sweetened with sugar or another additive, used as bread spread
- melted and solidified animal fat