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Definition of Asmear
1. a. Smeared over.
Definition of Asmear
1. Adjective. Smeared over. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Asmear
1. smeared over [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Asmear
Literary usage of Asmear
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Writings of Charles Dickens by Charles Dickens, Gilbert Ashville Pierce (1894)
"... being all asmear with filth and fat and blood and foam, seemed to stick to me.
So I rubbed it off with all possible speed by turning into a street where ..."
2. Familiar Allusions: A Hand-book of Miscellaneous Information Including the by William Adolphus Wheeler, Charles Gardner Wheeler (1887)
"... all asmear with filth, ami iat, and blood, and foam seemed to stick lo me.
Pip (Dickens, Great Expectation). Page. ..."
3. Rambles in Dickens' Land by Robert Allbut (1899)
"So I came into Smithfield; and the shameful place, being all asmear with filth,
and fat, and blood, and foam, seemed to stick to me. ..."
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