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ˈsmell-smock
[f. smell v. + smock n. 1.]
†1. A licentious man. Obs.
In early use employed suggestively as a surname.
1550Bale Image Both Ch. ii. xi, Ser Saunder smell smock, our parish priest. 1562Pilkington Expos. Abdyas 98 So can our belligoddes, the Popes Sir Jhon smell smocke, smel a feast in all parishes nere him. 1607Middleton Fam. Love ii. iii, To prevent this smell-smock, I'll to my friend. 1634Heywood Maidenh. well lost ii. Wks. 1874 IV. 125, I thinke you'le proue little better then a smell-smocke, That can finde out a pretty wench in such a Corner. 1673R. Head Cant. Acad. 147 These attractions..drew on a number of Smell-smocks, which courted her.
2. dial. As a plant-name, applied to (a) the cuckoo-flower, (b) the wood-anemone, and (c) the wood-sorrel.
1876–in dialect glossaries, etc. (cf. Britten & Holland Plant Names and the Eng. Dial. Dict.). |