Lexicographical Neighbors of Smousing
Literary usage of Smousing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. "Cape Times" Law Reports: A Record of Every Matter Disposed of in the by South Africa Supreme Court (1825)
"Asked Howson more than once, and he replied that the goods would positively be
thereby the end of April; if not, he would go •' smousing " with them. ..."
2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1887)
"... how he's smousing of her." SNAFFLE, t;.—To speak through the nose, to snuffle.
SNAGGY, adj.—Cross, snappish, irritable: as it were, full of snags, ..."
3. Through the Kalahari Desert: A Narrative of a Journey with Gun, Camera, and by William Hunt, G. Antonio Farini (1886)
"Here one of our oxen strayed, and, not being able to find it, we made a present
of it to old Billy Welles—who keeps a winkel, and does a little " smousing. ..."
4. A Glossary of Words Used in South-west Lincolnshire: (Wapentake of Graffoe) by Robert Eden George Cole (1886)
"To fondle, caress : as " Look, how he's smousing of her." SNAFFLE, v.—To speak
through the nose, to snuffle. SNAGGY, adj.—Cross, snappish, irritable : as it ..."
5. South Africa and Its Mission Fields by James Edward Carlyle (1878)
"This process of smousing, as it is termed in local slang, has a larger share than
even the trekking propensities of the frontier Boer population in carrying ..."
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