Word Meanings - SMOCK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

from the root of AS. sm to creep, akin to G. schmiegen to cling to, press close. MHG. smiegen, Icel. smj to creep through, to put on a garment which has a hole to put the head through; cf. Lith. smukti to 1. A woman's under-garment; a shift; a

Additional info about word: SMOCK

from the root of AS. sm to creep, akin to G. schmiegen to cling to, press close. MHG. smiegen, Icel. smj to creep through, to put on a garment which has a hole to put the head through; cf. Lith. smukti to 1. A woman's under-garment; a shift; a chemise. In her smock, with head and foot all bare. Chaucer. 2. A blouse; a smoock frock. Carlyle.

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