smeech

plural smeeches

1. CornwallAcrid smoke or other stench.

   […] gases escape in puffs from the furnace doors, which the men designate "smeeches," and these contain arsenic in a vaporised form, which has an extremely irritating effect on the bronchial tubes.

   1906, Sabine Baring-Gould, A Book of Cornwall

present singular third person smeeches · participle present smeeching · participle past smeeched · past smeeched

1. CornwallintransitiveTo produce smoke or stench.

   The story was so vivid that it was possible in the mind's eye of those in the audience to see the saucepan on the stove smeeching' away as she heated and stirred the mixture.

   2011, John Neale, Following the River Camel

   1 more example

   "The fire's smeeching." Jessalyn pulled the old mullioned window shut with a protest of its rusty hinges, then stooped to poke at a fire of furze and bits of driftwood, coaxing out a reluctant flame.

   1993, Penelope Williamson, Once in a Blue Moon, page 23