smousing
smousing is the present participle and gerund of smous.
smousing is the present participle and gerund of smouse.
Meaning of smous
Verb
smous (third-person singular simple present smouses, present participle smousing, simple past and past participle smoused)
- 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
Meaning of smouse
Verb
smouse (third-person singular simple present smouses, present participle smousing, simple past and past participle smoused)
- 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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- What is smousing the present participle and gerund of?
- Smousing is the present participle and gerund of smous.
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