Meanings
nounsmell-smock (plural smell-smocks)
plural smell-smocks · alternative smellsmock · alternative smell-smocke · alternative smellsmocke
- obsoleteA promiscuous man.
As arrant a smell-smock, for an old muttonmonger as thyself.
1604, Thomas Dekker, The Honest Whore, Part 2, act 4, scene 1; Rhys, Ernest, editor, Thomas Dekker, unexpurgated edition, London: Vizetelly & Co, 1887, page 247Synonyms: wencher, womanizer, benedick, cad, drabber, fuck boy, fuck-boy, fuckboy
- UKdialectalA plant, the cuckooflower or lady's smock (Cardamine pratensis).
- UKdialectalA plant, the wood sorrel (Oxalis acetosella).
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
From smell + smock (“woman's undergarment”).
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