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单词 smoot
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smootn.1

Forms: 1600s smought, smoute, 1800s smout, 1700s–1800s smoot, etc.
Origin: A borrowing from early Scandinavian.
Etymology: Of Scandinavian origin: compare Old Norse smátta, Norwegian dialect smotta, smott, Swedish dialect smott, smutt, Danish smutte narrow passage, hole, etc.
northern dialect.
A hole or opening at the foot of a wall, the bottom of a fence or hedge, etc., esp. one allowing the passage of hares, rabbits, or sheep; a narrow passage or entrance in a beehive. (Cf. smoot-hole n.)
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > bee-keeping > [noun] > beehive > parts of
moutha1398
stool?1523
skirt1555
hackle1609
smoot1615
imp1618
bolster1623
cop1623
underlaya1642
hack1658
tee-hole1669
frame1673
hood1686
alighting board1780
body box1823
superhive1847
super1855
quilt1870
queen excluder1881
bar-super1884
brood box1888
the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > an opening or aperture > [noun] > opening or break in continuity > in a wall, hedge, fence, dike, etc. > allowing passage of an animal
smoot1615
creep1819
smoot-holea1828
1615 in Trans. Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archæol. Soc. (1906) 3 154 Thomas Langhorne shall make his Smoughts three quarters high and three quarters broad to receive the water which cometh down by the Righouse.
a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 65 Then are yow to sette downe the hive on the sieve, leavinge an open smoute for them to goe in just towards the south, and to cover the backside of the hive..on all sides but onely wheare yow make your smoute.
1788 W. Marshall Provincialisms E. Yorks. in Rural Econ. Yorks. II. 353 Smoot, a hare muce; or any small gap or hole in the bottom of a hedge.
1891 J. C. Atkinson Forty Years Moorland Parish 84 The hare had run through the smout into Nanny's garth.
1893 J. Watson Confess. Poacher 58 I scanned the smoots and gates through which she [a hare] passed.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

smootn.2

Forms: In 1800s smout.
Etymology: < smoot v.2
Printing slang.
(See quot. 1888.)
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > printing > printer > [noun] > one who does casual work
smoot1888
1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 127 Smout, a compositor who seeks odd jobs in various houses.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

smootv.1

/smuːt/
Etymology: < smoot n.1 Compare Danish smutte to creep, slink.
northern dialect.
intransitive. (See quots.)
ΚΠ
1788 W. Marshall Provincialisms E. Yorks. in Rural Econ. Yorks. II. 353 To Smoot, to creep under or through, as a hare or sheep through a hedge.
1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 160 A young man is said to smoot after a girl when he dares not appear openly in the courtship.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2020).

smootv.2

/smuːt/
Forms: Also smout.
Etymology: Of obscure origin.
Printing slang.
intransitive. To do casual work in a printing-house where one is not regularly employed (see quots.). †Also const. on (a firm).
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > printing > printing specific type of work > print specific type of work [verb (intransitive)] > casual work
smoot1683
grass1879
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > soil [verb (transitive)]
sulec897
smitOE
soil1297
besoila1300
bysulpc1400
smudgec1430
dauba1450
smirch1495
smotter1513
suddle1513
smada1525
coinquinatea1529
puddle1535
moil1575
smut1587
sud1593
sully1601
coninquinate1609
smirch1615
smutcha1616
beslurry1627
besullya1645
smoot1683
besmircha1700
be-smutch1832
guggle1866
dirten1906
society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > degrading or impairing morally > degrade or impair morally [verb (transitive)] > pollute or defile
afileeOE
awemOE
filec1175
wemc1175
soila1250
foulc1330
defoula1340
bleckc1380
blemishc1380
pollutea1382
tache1390
sulpa1400
vilec1400
spota1413
stain1446
defilec1450
violate1490
tan1530
smear1549
beray1576
moil1596
discolour1598
smut1601
bespurtle1604
sullya1616
commaculatec1616
decolour?c1622
collutulate1623
deturpate1623
berust1631
smutch1640
discolorate1651
smoot1683
tarnish1695
tar1817
dirten1987
1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 360 If a Journey-man Smout more or less on another Printing House.

Derivatives

ˈsmooting n.
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society > communication > printing > printing specific type of work > [noun] > casual work
smooting1683
grassing1875
grass1888
1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. Dict. 390 Workmen when..out of constant Work, do sometimes accept of a Day or twos Work..at another Printing-house: this By-work they call Smouting. [Hence in Holme and Luckombe.]
1757 Franklin in Lockwood Amer. Dict. Printing (1894) 513 If a fat old fellow should come to your printing-house and request a little smouting.
1865 C. Knight Shadows Old Booksellers 82 Gent..got no regular employment, but laboured here and there without settlement, upon what was called ‘smouting work’.
1892 J. Southward Pract. Printing (ed. 4) 569Smooting.’—No member of the [Typographical] Association is permitted to work for any other employer than the one by whom he is engaged.., except in case of accident... Transgression of this rule is called ‘smooting’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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