Lexicographical Neighbors of Smeech
Literary usage of Smeech
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report and Transactions (1875)
"Garland—" smeech. An offensive smell. The smoke from a candle. ... 'smeech, to
make a stink with the snuff of a candle.' MS. Devon. ..."
2. Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of (1875)
"Jennings—" smeech. Fine dust raised in the air." Williams—" SMITCH, SMIT ...
Garland—" smeech. An offensive smell. The smoke from a candle. ..."
3. Transactions of the Philological Society by Philological Society (Great Britain). (1901)
"Hatch, ' a half-door, line of raked hay.' Screech, vb. smeech, 'dust ... smeech, '
cloud of dust.' Streech, ' space taken in stone-striking of the rake. ..."
4. Contributions to the History of the English Gutturals Sounds by Henry Cecil Kennedy Wyld (1899)
"smeech \ ' smell of smoke from any- Smitch ) thing burnt in frying. ... smeech, '
cloud of dust.' Streech, ' space taken in stone-striking of the rake. ..."
5. The West Somerset Word-book: A Glossary of Dialectal and Archaic Words and by Frederick Thomas Elworthy (1886)
"smeech [smee'ch, smich], sb. i. Dust in the air. ... Your bakehouse chimley do
make such a smeech, we can't never put out no clothes in the garden. ..."
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