smous
Not valid in Scrabble
It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
- Scrabble points
- 7
- Words With Friends
- 9
- Letters
- 5
Definition of smous
3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
- (South-Africa, historical)A peddler.
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noun
- (South-Africa, historical)A peddler.
- (South-Africa, historical)A Jew from Germany or Eastern Europe.
verb
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(South-Africa, historical)To go about selling goods, as an itinerant peddler.
“Not only South Africans, White and Black, but fortune hunters from Europe and America, Indian and Chinese labourers and traders, and Jews from the ghettoes (sic) and shtetles of Eastern Europe, who had come to 'smous' […]”
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Etymology
Borrowed from Afrikaans smous or Dutch smous, from a Yiddish word whose precise origin is uncertain. One theory is that it derives from Yiddish משה (moyshe, “Moses”), pronounced moushe in Western Yiddish, from Hebrew מֹשֶׁה (moshé, “Moses”).
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