smock

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Scrabble points
13
Words With Friends
15
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/smɒk/
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/smɒk/ · /smɑk/

Definition of smock

8 senses · 4 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A type of undergarment worn by women; a shift or slip.
    “c. 1960s (version), 14th century' (originally published), Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, The Clerk's Prologue and Tale Before the folk herself stripped she, And in her smock, with foot and head all bare, Toward her father's house forth is she fare.”
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noun

  1. A type of undergarment worn by women; a shift or slip.
    “c. 1960s (version), 14th century' (originally published), Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, The Clerk's Prologue and Tale Before the folk herself stripped she, And in her smock, with foot and head all bare, Toward her father's house forth is she fare.”
  2. A blouse; a smock frock.
    “And women were in that gabarre [boat]; whom the Red Nightcaps were stripping naked; who begged, in their agony, that their smocks might not be stript from them.”
  3. A loose garment worn as protection by a painter, etc.

adj

  1. (not-comparable)Of or pertaining to a smock; resembling a smock
  2. (not-comparable)Hence, of or pertaining to a woman.

verb

  1. (transitive)To provide with, or clothe in, a smock or a smock frock.
  2. (transitive)To apply smocking.

name

  1. A surname.

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Etymology

From Middle English smok, from Old English smocc, smoc, from Proto-Germanic *smukkaz (“something slipped into”). Akin to Old High German smocho, Icelandic smokkur, and from the root of Old English…

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From Middle English smok, from Old English smocc, smoc, from Proto-Germanic *smukkaz (“something slipped into”). Akin to Old High German smocho, Icelandic smokkur, and from the root of Old English smugan (“to creep”), akin to German schmiegen (“to cling to, press close”). Middle High German smiegen, Icelandic smjúga (“to creep through, to put on a garment which has a hole to put the head through”); compare with Lithuanian smukti (“to glide”). See also smug, smuggle.

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