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Middle English
Etymology
Compare smut.
Adjective
smoterlich
- dirty; foul
1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Reues Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, ,
→OCLC; republished in [
William Thynne], editor,
The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, ,
:
[
Richard Grafton for]
Iohn Reynes ,
1542,
→OCLC:
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