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smock
[smok] 
–noun
| 1. | a loose, lightweight overgarment worn to protect the clothing while working. |
–verb (used with object)
| 2. | to clothe in a smock. |
| 3. | to draw (a fabric) by needlework into a honeycomb pattern with diamond-shaped recesses. |
Origin:
bef. 1000; ME (n.), OE smocc; orig. name for a garment with a hole for the head; cf. ON smjūga to put on (a garment) over the head
bef. 1000; ME (n.), OE smocc; orig. name for a garment with a hole for the head; cf. ON smjūga to put on (a garment) over the head
Related forms:
smocklike, adjective
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| smock (smŏk) n. A loose coatlike outer garment, often worn to protect the clothes while working. tr.v. smocked, smock·ing, smocks
[Middle English, woman's undergarment, from Old English smoc.] |
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Smock
Smock\ (sm[o^]k), n. [AS. smocc; akin to OHG. smocho, Icel. smokkr, and from the root of AS. sm[=u]gan to creep, akin to G. schmiegen to cling to, press close, MHG. smiegen, Icel. smj[=u]ga to creep through, to put on a garment which has a hole to put the head through; cf. Lith. smukti to glide. Cf. Smug, Smuggle.]1. A woman's under-garment; a shift; a chemise. In her smock, with head and foot all bare. --Chaucer. 2. A blouse; a smoock frock. --Carlyle.Smock
Smock\, a. Of or pertaining to a smock; resembling a smock; hence, of or pertaining to a woman. Smock mill, a windmill of which only the cap turns round to meet the wind, in distinction from a post mill, whose whole building turns on a post. Smock race, a race run by women for the prize of a smock. [Prov. Eng.]Smock
Smock\, v. t. To provide with, or clothe in, a smock or a smock frock. --Tennyson.
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Language Translation for : smock
Spanish:
blusón, bata,
German:
der Kittel,
Japanese:
スモック
smock
O.E. smoc "woman's garment," from P.Gmc. *smukkaz (cf. O.N. smokkr, but this is perhaps from O.E., O.H.G. smoccho "smock," a rare word, N.Fris. smok, but this, too, perhaps from Eng.), from PIE base *smeugh- "to press" (cf. O.C.S. smykati se "to creep"). Original notion seems to be "garment one creeps into," as the word is related to O.N. smjuga "to creep into (a garment)" and O.E. smugan "to creep" and smygel "a burrow." Cf. also Ger. schmiegen "to cling to, to press close, nestle," hence M.H.G. verb smucken, Ger. schmucken "to adorn." Eng. smock was common down to 18c., and was emblematic of womanhood generally, cf. verb smock "to render (a man) effeminate or womanish" (1614); smock-face "person having a pale, effeminate face" (1605). Replaced by euphemistic shift (n.2). Modern meaning "woman's or child's loose dress or blouse" is from 1907; sense of "loose garment worn by artists over other clothes" is from 1938.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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smock
loose, shirtlike garment worn by women in the European Middle Ages under their gowns (also called a chemise). The smock later became a loose, yoked, shirtlike outer garment of coarse linen, used to protect the clothes; it was worn, for example, by fieldworkers in Europe.
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