Meanings
nounsmock-smelling (uncountable)
- obsoleteuncountableThe activity of flirting, seducing or pursuing women.
A drench that's able to kill a horse, cannot kill this disease of smock-smelling, my lord, if it have once eaten deep.
1604, Thomas Dekker, The Honest Whore, Part 2, act 4, scene 2; Rhys, Ernest, editor, Thomas Dekker, unexpurgated edition, London: Vizetelly & Co, 1887, page 259Synonyms: philandering, wenching, womanizing
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe activity of flirting, seducing or pursuing women.
Origin
From smock (“woman's undergarment”) + smelling.
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