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smock-smelling

smock-smelling noun: the activity of flirting, seducing or pursuing women.

Noun

smock-smelling (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) The activity of flirting, seducing or pursuing women.
    • A drench that's able to kill a horse, cannot kill this disease of smock-smelling, my lord, if it have once eaten deep.1604, Thomas Dekker, The Honest Whore, Part 2, act 4, scene 2; Rhys, Ernest, editor, Thomas Dekker, unexpurgated edition, London: Vizetelly & Co, 1887, page 259

Synonyms of smock-smelling

Origin of smock-smelling

From smock (“woman's undergarment”) + smelling.

Questions about smock-smelling

What does smock-smelling mean?
Smock-smelling means the activity of flirting, seducing or pursuing women.
What part of speech is smock-smelling?
Smock-smelling is a noun.

Words near smock-smelling in the dictionary

  1. smock mill
  2. smock mills
  3. smock-face
  4. smock-faced
  5. smock-faces
  6. smock-smelling
  7. smocked
  8. smocked up
  9. smocker
  10. smockers
  11. smockfrock

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