Smock

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -É’k

Origin

From Old English smoc(c), from Proto-Germanic *smukkaz ("something slipped into"); akin to Old High German smocho, Icelandic smokkr, and from the root of Old English smugan ("to creep"), akin to German schmiegen ("to cling to, press close"). Middle High German smiegen, Icelandic smjúga ("to creep through, to put on a garment which has a hole to put the head through"); compare with Lithuanian smukti ("to glide"). See also smug, smuggle.

Full definition of smock

Noun

1. A woman's undergarment; a shift; a chemise.
• 14th century, Chaucer, ,Before the folk herselfe stripped she,And in her smock, with foot and head all bare,Toward her father's house forth is she fare.
2. A blouse; a smock frock.
3. A loose garment worn as protection by a painter, etc.

Adjective

1. Of or pertaining to a smock; resembling a smock
2. Hence, of or pertaining to a woman.

Derived terms

• smock mill
• smock race

Verb

1. (transitive) To provide with, or clothe in, a smock or a smock frock. Alfred Tennyson.
2. (transitive) To apply smocking.

Anagrams

• mocks