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smoth⋅er⋅y

  [smuhth-uh-ree]
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–adjective
stifling; close: a smothery atmosphere.
Origin:
1595–1605; smother + -y 1
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smoth·er·y   (smŭth'ə-rē)   
adj.   Upper Southern U.S.
Confined. Used of a place: "Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don't" (Mark Twain).
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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