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smoused

smoused is the simple past and past participle of smous.

smoused is the simple past and past participle of smouse.

Meaning of smous

Verb

smous (third-person singular simple present smouses, present participle smousing, simple past and past participle smoused)

  1. (South Africa, historical) To go about selling goods, as an itinerant peddler.
    • Not only South Africans, White and Black, but fortune hunters from Europe and America, Indian and Chinese labourers and traders, and Jews from the ghettoes (sic) and shtetles of Eastern Europe, who had come to 'smous' […]2021, Anne Fuchs, Playing the Market, page 49

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Meaning of smouse

Verb

smouse (third-person singular simple present smouses, present participle smousing, simple past and past participle smoused)

  1. (archaic, intransitive, transitive) To feast (on something).
    • "Here, Honeſty, take this bill of fare: here is a liſt of ſome plain diſhes, which I ſhall neyer be averſe from; and which I could ſafely venture to ſmouze plentifully upon."1775, [Francis Blackburne], A Few Strictures on the Confessional: […], London: T. Payne, page 12

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Questions about smoused

What is smoused the simple past and past participle of?
Smoused is the simple past and past participle of smous.

Words near smoused in the dictionary

  1. smoulders
  2. smouldring
  3. smouldry
  4. smous
  5. smouse
  6. smoused
  7. smouser
  8. smousers
  9. smouses
  10. smousing
  11. smout

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