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smell-smocks

smell-smocks is the plural of smell-smock.

Meaning of smell-smock

Noun

smell-smock (plural smell-smocks)

  1. (obsolete) A promiscuous man.
    • As arrant a smell-smock, for an old muttonmonger as thyself.1604, Thomas Dekker, The Honest Whore, Part 2, act 4, scene 1; Rhys, Ernest, editor, Thomas Dekker, unexpurgated edition, London: Vizetelly & Co, 1887, page 247
  2. (UK, dialectal) A plant, the cuckooflower or lady's smock (Cardamine pratensis).
  3. (UK, dialectal) A plant, the wood sorrel (Oxalis acetosella).

Questions about smell-smocks

What is smell-smocks the plural of?
Smell-smocks is the plural of smell-smock.

Words near smell-smocks in the dictionary

  1. smell-o-meters
  2. smell-o-rama
  3. smell-o-ramas
  4. smell-o-vision
  5. smell-smock
  6. smell-smocks
  7. smellable
  8. smelled
  9. smelled a rat
  10. smelled blood
  11. smelled like a rose

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