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smatchet Sc.|ˈsmætʃɪt|
Forms: α. 6 smachart, 6, 9 smatcher, -ert, 9 -art, -ard. β. 7 smatched, 9 smatchet (-it).
[Of obscure origin.]
An insignificant contemptible person; a chit.
αc1582Montgomerie Flyting (Tull.) 623 For schismes, and Symonie, þat smachart [Harl. smatched] wes schameit. 1583Leg. Bp. St. Androis 996 Bot ay the mair this smatcher gettis, The closser garris he keip the yettis. 1846W. Cross Disruption xxxii, Some other smatchert they call Duncanson it seems is coming. 1878‘Saxon’ Galloway Gossip 98 (E.D.D.), A sort of misleer't kind of a smatchart.
β16..Montgomerie's Flyting (Harl.) 473 Where that smatched hade sucked, so sair it was to shed it. 1834Tait's Mag. I. 428/1 These Oxford smatchets too, singing through their noses, in mockery of the Dissenters! 1871W. Alexander Johnny Gibb (1873) 118 Impident smatchet that he is. |