smousen.
/smaʊz/ΘΚΠ
society > faith > sect > Judaism > [noun] > person
Jewa1225
synagogistc1662
sabbatizer1683
smouse1705
smouch1765
sheeny1824
Yahudi1858
Hebraist1879
Hymie1956
SJM1975
1705 tr. W. Bosman New Descr. Coast of Guinea xi. 190 They are as Impertinent and Noisie as the Smouse or German Jews at their Synagogue at Amsterdam.
1761 G. Colman in St. James's Chron. 27 June 1/2 [Earring-] Bobs or Drops..which also the insinuating Smouse soon provided for her.
1785 C. Macklin Man of World ii. 30 I honour the smouse—ha! ha! it was deevilish clever—the Jew distilling the Beeshop's brains.
2. South African. An itinerant trader. Also attributive.
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society > trade and finance > trader > [noun] > itinerant
piepowderc1436
kedger1497
badgera1500
cadger?a1500
chapman?1593
peripateticc1600
haggler1602
higgler1637
mugger1743
truckerc1790
smouch1849
smouse1850
togt-ganger1879
kurveyor1885
smouser1903
machinga1993
1850 R. Gordon-Cumming Five Years Hunter's Life S. Afr. I. iii. 53 Here we met a ‘smouse’, or trader, coming down the country.
1883 O. Schreiner Story Afr. Farm ii. iii A spray of orange-blossom which she had bought from a smouse.
1890 Eng. Illustr. Mag. Nov. 112 I..did a little in the ‘smouse’ line.
Derivatives
ˈsmouser n.
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society > trade and finance > trader > [noun] > itinerant
piepowderc1436
kedger1497
badgera1500
cadger?a1500
chapman?1593
peripateticc1600
haggler1602
higgler1637
mugger1743
truckerc1790
smouch1849
smouse1850
togt-ganger1879
kurveyor1885
smouser1903
machinga1993
1903 E. Glanville Diamond Seekers 225 We are smousers (traders), said Amos.
ˈsmousing n.
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society > trade and finance > other trading methods > [noun]
fair trading1685
grocery1689
carriage trade1720
sale or (formerly and) return1795
Labour Exchange1828
security system1831
smousingc1876
postal trade1902
triangular trade1934
switch trading1967
relationship management1970
p-y-o1977
counter-trade1978
pick-your-own1980
counter-trading1983
fair trade1986
carry trade1994
c1876 Sir B. Frere in J. E. Carlyle S. Africa & Mission Fields (1878) 103 This process of smousing, as it is termed in local slang.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
smousev.
/smaʊz/ 1. intransitive. To feast.
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > feasting > feast [verb (intransitive)]
to make good (glad, merry etc.) cheerc1330
festya1382
feastc1400
junket1607
convive1609
obligure1623
to make a feast of (also upon)1624
regale1678
smouse1775
to make feast1868
1775 Election Ball. 64 Let me, my dear, quaff my Beer, Smouze and carouze.
2. transitive. To eat up, consume, as a delicacy.
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eat [verb (transitive)]
eatc825
to-fret?c1225
vourc1330
dinec1380
to eat inc1450
engorge1541
tooth1579
canvass1602
get1603
eat1607
manger1609
upeat1630
dispatch1711
feed1725
yam1725
to eat off1733
repartake1751
patter1803
chop1833
smouse1840
to stow away1858
to put oneself outside ——1865
to get outside ——1876
to feed down1887
1840 J. H. Frere tr. Aristophanes Acharnians in Wks. III. 50 Some that require Quickly to be broil'd, devour'd and smoused, On the spot, piping hot.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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