smittle
/ˈsmɪt(ə)l
/(also smittal)
adjective Scottish & Northern English
Contagious or infectious: he’s got a cough, and they say it’s smittle...
- I've a theory that fear is smittal.
- Either it's the season of the year or else hiking is proving as smittal as SARS.
- You're not to be feart of the scabs; the doctor assured us they're not smittal.
Origin
Late 16th century: from the dialect verb smit 'to infect, affect by contagion', related to smite.
- throw shade
- throw shapes
- throw someone a bone
- throw someone a curve
- throw someone a curveball
- throw someone out
- throw someone over
- throw someone to the dogs
- throw someone to the lions
- throw someone to the wolves
- throw someone under the bus
- throw something away
- throw something back in someone's face
- throw something down
- throw something in
- throw something off
- throw something on (or into) the scale
- throw something open
- throw something out
- throw something overboard
- throw something together
- throw something up
- throwster
- throw the baby out with the bathwater
- throw the book at