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

smerlin
smerlins
smetana
smeuse
smeuses
smew
smews
smexier
smexiest
smicker
smickered
smickering
smickers
smicket (current term)
smickets
smickly
smiddied
smiddies
smiddy
smiddying
smidge
smidgen
smidgens
smidgeon
smidgeons
smidges
smidgin
smidgins

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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