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Definition of Smicket
1. n. A woman's under-garment; a smock.
Definition of Smicket
1. Noun. (obsolete UK dialect) A woman's undergarment; a smock. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Smicket
1. a chemise [n -S] - See also: chemise
Medical Definition of Smicket
1. A woman's under-garment; a smock. Origin: Dim. Of smock. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Smicket
Literary usage of Smicket
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A General Pronouncing and Explanatory Dictionary of the English Language: To by George Fulton, G. Knight (1826)
"... a. lazy ; slothful "is, n. vent for water — v. to emit by Smerk, «merk, v.
to smile wantonly smicket, smik'et, n. a woman's shift Smile, smil, ..."
2. The Folk-speech of South Cheshire by Thomas Darlington (1887)
"smicket [smik-it], s. t(l) a woman's shirt; a diminutive of SMOCK (qv). ...
(1) a woman's shirt Compare smicket; and 1 K. Henry VI., I. ii. 119. ..."
3. Essay on the Archaeology of Our Popular Phrases: Terms and Nursery Rhymes by John Bellenden Ker (1840)
"A smicket; a shift, a woman's undermost covering; a term now more disused ...
Johnson says smicket is the diminutive of smock ! a tiny smock! one fit for a ..."
4. Publications by English Dialect Society (1896)
"Thin, lean. Smeath. An open level of considerable extent, commonly pronounced
and printed Smee. *Smee. Widgeon (Anas penelope) [CHB]. Smick, smicket. ..."
5. Suffolk Words and Phrases: Or, An Attempt to Collect the Lingual Localisms by Edward Moor (1823)
"smicket. Shift—chemise. A delicate pronunciation of smock; ... smicket, occurs
under Placket. SMILE. The same, I believe, or nearly, as Smale; ..."
6. Suffolk Words and Phrases: Or, An Attempt to Collect the Lingual Localisms by Edward Moor (1823)
"smicket. Shift—chemise. A delicate pronunciation of smock; ... smicket, occurs
under Placket. SMILE. The same, I believe, or nearly, as Smale; ..."
7. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1907)
"This may have taken the Romance diminutive suffix -et, as did " smock," " smicket."
; HPL WEST'S PICTURE or THE DEATH or GENERAL WOLFE (10 S. v. ..."
8. Transactions of the Philological Society by Philological Society (Great Britain). (1901)
"Skrike, ' to shriek." Sleak, ' to put out the tongue.' smicket, ' a woman's shirt.'
Snacks, '«hares." Sneck, 'a latch." Snicket, ' naughty child." Strickle. ..."
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