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Definition of Scomfish
1. v. t. & i. To suffocate or stifle; to smother.
Definition of Scomfish
1. Verb. (transitive UK Scotland dialect) To suffocate or stifle; to smother. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Scomfish
1. to stifle [v -ED, -ING, -ES] - See also: stifle
Medical Definition of Scomfish
1. To suffocate or stifle; to smother. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scomfish
Literary usage of Scomfish
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Pocket Dictionary of the Scottish Idiom: In which the Significance of the by Robert Motherby (1826)
"the sensation oi ". to be sickened to fainting by overheated or bad air, heavy
meats or the odour of them, •while the stomach is empty, it implies scomfish ..."
2. A Supplementary English Glossary by Thomas Lewis Owen Davies (1881)
"scomfish, to stifle or otherwise injure. Remove your candles, for since the Saxon
gentlemen have seeu them, they will eat ..."
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