smore

• IPA^(key): /smɔː(ɹ)/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)

See smoor.

smore (third-person singular simple present smores, present participle smoring, simple past and past participle smored)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To smother.
   • 1584, Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, translated by Thomas Hudson, Judith:

     Some dying vomit blood, and some were smored.

   • 16th century, unknown writer, untitled ballad

     Loud, loud cried out the bonnie son,
     Stood at the nurse's knee,
     "Gie our your house, my mother dear,"
     The reek is smoring me!"

• “smore”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

smore (plural smores)

1. (nonstandard) Alternative spelling of s'more

• moser, meros, morse, somer, Somer, moers, Moser, omers, Morse, mores, mesor, Romes, Mores

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smore

1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of smoren

• morse

From Middle English smoren, from Old English smorian (“to smother, suffocate, choke”).

• IPA^(key): /smɔː/

smore (simple past smort, past participle ee-smort)

1. to smother

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 68