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smell-smock

noun

Etymology

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

  1. inherited from *smukkaz✻
  2. inherited from smocc
  3. inherited from smok
  4. compounded as smell-smock — “smell + smock”

Definitions

  1. A promiscuous man.

    • As arrant a smell-smock, for an old muttonmonger as thyself.

  2. A plant, the cuckooflower or lady's smock (Cardamine pratensis).

  3. A plant, the wood sorrel (Oxalis acetosella).

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for smell-smock. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA