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English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search Your Query of 'smock' Resulted in 1 Matches Displaying Items 1 through 1 Definitions smock noun  A woman's undergarment; a shift; a chemise. In her , with head and foot all bare. Chaucer. A blouse. A loose garment worn as protection by a painter, etc. Translations:  Italian: blusa (trans-mid) (trans-bottom) verb (smocks, smocking, smocked, smocked) (transitive) To provide with, or clothe in, a smock or a smock frock. Tennyson. (transitive) To apply smocking. adjective  Of or pertaining to a smock; resembling a smock Hence, of or pertaining to a woman. Etymology: From smoc; akin to Old High German smocho, Icelandic smokkr, and from the root of Old English smgan "to creep", akin to German schmiegen "to cling to", "press close". Middle High German smiegen, Icelandic smjga "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.        Find:   Words Starting With:   Words Ending With:   Words Containing:   Words That Match:    Translate Into:    Dutch   French   German    Italian   Spanish Enter your search terms Submit search form   Web www.allwords.com Browse the Dictionary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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