Lexicographical Neighbors of Smugging
Literary usage of Smugging
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (1916)
"Athy said: — smugging. All the fellows were silent: and Athy said: — And that's
why? ... What did that mean about the smugging in the square? ..."
2. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (1916)
"Athy said: — smugging. All the fellows were silent: and Athy said: — And that's
why? ... What did that mean about the smugging in the square? ..."
3. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1850)
"smugging. Games had their peculiar times or seasons, and when any game was ...
This was called smugging, and it was expressed by the boys in a doggrel, viz. ..."
4. Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: Chiefly by John Brand, Henry Ellis (1895)
"... as it was termed, it was lawful to steal the thing played with ; this was
called smugging, and it was expressed by the boys in a doggrel,— " Tops are in ..."
5. British Popular Customs, Present and Past: Illustrating the Social and by Thomas Firminger Thiselton Dyer (1900)
"Tops are out, smugging about." or, " Tops are in, spin 'em agin. "Tops are in,
spin 'em agin. Dumps are out, &o." The fair cock was not allowed to have his ..."
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