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smock

/smɒk/US/smɑk/

smock noun: a type of undergarment worn by women; a shift or slip.

Noun

smock (plural smocks)

  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.1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History
  3. A loose garment worn as protection by a painter, etc.

Adjective

smock (not comparable)

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

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.
  2. (transitive) To apply smocking.

Proper noun capitalized: Smock

Smock (plural Smocks)

  1. A surname.

smock meaning in Bengali and Kannada

smock in Bengali

ঢিলেঢালা পোশাক, কর্মপোশাক

smock in Kannada

ಜುಬ್ಬ, ನಿಲುವಂಗಿ, ಉದ್ದನೆಯ ಷರಟು, ಹೊರ ಅಂಗಿ

Examples of smock in a sentence

  • She looked pretty much as I'd imagined she would: loose cotton smock, overpermed hair, tobacco-stained teeth.
  • The overdrift method in smock mills may be seen at Punnetts Town, and the underdrift at Shipley.
  • The laborers, too, in white smocks, broad and heavy, a thickset personnel, butchers’ men.

All 14 example sentences with smock

Forms of smock

Noun
pluralsmocks
Verb
third-person singular presentsmocks
present participlesmocking
past participlesmocked
pastsmocked
Proper noun
pluralSmocks

Plural of smock: smocks

Origin of smock

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.

English surname, from the noun smock. See also Smoker.

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Phrases with smock

Words that rhyme with smock

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Questions about smock

What does smock mean?
Smock means a type of undergarment worn by women; a shift or slip.
What is smock in Bengali?
Smock in Bengali is ঢিলেঢালা পোশাক, কর্মপোশাক. See Smock meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is smock?
Smock can be a noun, an adjective, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce smock?
Smock is pronounced /smɒk/ (UK).
What is the plural of smock?
The plural of smock is smocks.

Words near smock in the dictionary

  1. smoaketh
  2. smoakie
  3. smoaking
  4. smoaks
  5. smoaky
  6. smock
  7. smock frock
  8. smock frocks
  9. smock mill
  10. smock mills
  11. smock-face

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: smock (page history and authors); Smock (page history and authors); smock (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); smock (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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