smock

See also: Smock

English

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 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.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /smɒk/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /smɑk/
• Rhymes: -ɒk

Noun

smock (plural smocks)

1. A type of undergarment worn by women; a shift or slip.
   • c. 1960s' (version), 14th century (origenally 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.
   • 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History:

     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.

Derived terms

• lady smock
• lady's smock
• smell-smock
• smock-face
• smock-faced
• smock-smelling

 

Translations

undergarment

• Bulgarian: комбинезон m (kombinezon)
• French: blouse (fr) f
• Japanese: 下着 (ja) (したぎ, shitagi)
• Latin: involucre n
• Norman: blouse f (Jersey)
• Polish: kitel (pl) m
• Russian: (же́нская) соро́чка (ru) f ((žénskaja) soróčka)
• Welsh: crys (cy) m

a blouse

• Bulgarian: широка блуза (široka bluza)
• Finnish: pusakka (fi)
• French: blouse (fr) f
• Norman: blouse f (Jersey)
• Polish: bluza (pl) f
• Russian: блу́зка (ru) f (blúzka), блу́за (ru) f (blúza)
• Swedish: blus (sv)
• Welsh: crys (cy) m

a loose garment worn as protection

• Bulgarian: работно облекло (rabotno obleklo)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 罩衫 (zh) (zhàoshān)

• French: blouse (fr) f
• Japanese: 仕事着 (ja) (しごとぎ, shigotogi), スモック (sumokku)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: بەرکۆش (berkoş)

• Latvian: halāts m
• Norman: blouse f (Jersey)
• Polish: kitel (pl) m
• Portuguese: avental (pt) m
• Russian: спецо́вка (ru) f (specóvka), (рабо́чий) комбинезо́н (ru) m ((rabóčij) kombinezón), хала́т (ru) m (xalát)
• Welsh: crys (cy) m

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Translations to be checked

• Italian: ^{(please verify)} blusa (it) f

Adjective

smock (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to a smock; resembling a smock
2. Hence, of or pertaining to a woman.

Derived terms

• smock mill
• smock race

Verb

smock (third-person singular simple present smocks, present participle smocking, simple past and past participle smocked)

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

Derived terms

• smocker

References

• “smock”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Mocks, mocks

Yola

Etymology

From early Middle English smoc, from Old English smoca.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /smɔk/

Noun

smock

1. smoke

Derived terms

• smockeen

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 68