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English
Etymology
From smell + smock (“woman's undergarment”).
Noun
smell-smock (plural smell-smocks)
- (obsolete) A promiscuous man.
1604, Thomas Dekker, The Honest Whore, Part 2, act 4, scene 1; Rhys, Ernest, editor, Thomas Dekker, unexpurgated edition, London: Vizetelly & Co, 1887, page 247:As arrant a smell-smock, for an old muttonmonger as thyself.
- (British, dialect) A plant, the cuckooflower or lady's smock (Cardamine pratensis).
- (British, dialect) A plant, the wood sorrel (Oxalis acetosella).
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