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