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smock¹

  • /smɒk/ UK
  • /smɑk/ US

Rhymes with -ɒk

Where it comes from

From Middle English smok, from Old English smocc, smoc, from Proto-Germanic *smukkaz (“something slipped into”).

Akin to Old High German smocho, Icelandic smokkur, and from the root of Old English smugan (“to creep”), akin to German schmiegen (“to cling to, press close”). Middle High German smiegen, Icelandic smjúga (“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.

noun smocks

  1. A type of undergarment worn by women; a shift or slip. c. 1960s' (version), 14th century (originally published), Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, The Clerk's Prologue and Tale Before the folk herself stripped she, And in her smock, with foot and head all bare, Toward her father's house forth is she fare.
  2. A blouse; a smock frock. And women were in that gabarre [boat]; whom the Red Nightcaps were stripping naked; who begged, in their agony, that their smocks might not be stript from them.
  3. A loose garment worn as protection by a painter, etc.

adjective

  1. not comparable Of or pertaining to a smock; resembling a smock
  2. not comparable Hence, of or pertaining to a woman.

verb smocks · smocking · smocked

  1. transitive To provide with, or clothe in, a smock or a smock frock.
  2. transitive To apply smocking.

Smock²

Where it comes from

English surname, from the noun smock. See also Smoker.

proper noun Smocks

  1. A surname.

Translations

Every language

noun undergarment

日本語下着 shitagi
Françaisblouse
Русскийсоро́чка

noun a blouse

Françaisblouse
Русскийблу́зка blúzka, блу́за blúza

noun a loose garment worn as protection

日本語仕事着 shigotogi, スモック sumokku
中文罩衫 zhàoshān
Portuguêsavental, bata
Françaisblouse
Русскийблу́за blúza, хала́т, спецо́вка specóvka

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@misc{smock_2026,
  title = {smock},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/smock},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}