Lexicographical Neighbors of Smatched
Literary usage of Smatched
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin, John Bigelow, Bruce Rogers (1906)
"This is undoubtedly the original manuscript, with interlining, erasures, marginal
notes, and blots (of which one smasher, that was smatched thin nearly over ..."
2. The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Including the Private as Well as the by Benjamin Franklin, John Bigelow (1904)
"This is undoubtedly the original manuscript, with interlining, erasures, marginal
notes, and blots (of which one smasher, that was smatched thin nearly over ..."
3. Development of English Literature and Language by Alfred Hix Welsh (1882)
"... hath smatched it? Have yon felt the wool of beaver? Or swan's down ever?
Or have smelt o' the bud o' the briar? Or the nard in the fire? ..."
4. The Leisure Hour edited by William Haig Miller, James Macaulay, William Stevens (1876)
"A spent cannon-ball nearly smatched my shoulder; an' nobody knows what would have
become o' me, for the boys were all ..."
5. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: In which the Words are ...by John Jamieson by John Jamieson (1818)
"... smatched, SMAT- CHER, s. 1. A contemptuous term for a man. Leg. St Andreis.
2. Applied in the same sense to • child, S. ; perhaps from small and chit. ..."
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