Word of the Day Archive
Friday October 15, 2010
smithereens \smith-uh-REENZ\
, noun:
Small pieces; bits.
You watch it all happen like a slow bomb, from the end of World War I, the dementia of power, till the smithereens are in smithereens.
-- Paul Monette, Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story
I've jack-booted my way into your life, crushed it to smithereens, and you're still pleased for me!
-- Jill Mansell, Millie's Fling
Smithereens is an alteration of the Irish smidirin, "fragment."
Dictionary.com Entry and Pronunciation for smithereens
