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▪ I. † smy1 Sc. Obs.
[Of obscure origin.]
A knave or rascal.
1501Douglas Pal. Hon. i. lxiv, Than suddanelie Venus..Answerit thus, ‘Thow subtell smy [etc.]’. 1508Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen 113 Quhen the smy on me smyrkis. a1585Montgomerie Flyting 648 Sen all is suith that's said of this smy.
▪ II. smy2 ? Obs.
Also smie.
[Of obscure origin.]
A small fish (see quots.).
1552Elyot Dict. s.v. Aphya, In Essex is a fishe called a Smie, whiche if he be longe kept, will turne to water. 1601Holland Pliny I. 265 The Apuæ, which are the groundlings and Smies, [come] of the fome of the sea set in an heat & chafed after some good shewer. 1611Cotgr., Melette, a very small, soft, and fat sea-fish, bred of raine, and water, and called the Smie, or sea-Groundlin. 1668Charleton Onomast. 143 Apua,..the Spirling, Smy, or Sea-Dace. 1694Motteux Rabelais iv. lx. (1737) 246 Craylings, Smys. |