duster, gaberdine, gabardine, smock, dust coat
(noun) a loose coverall (coat or frock) reaching down to the ankles
smock
(verb) embellish by sewing in straight lines crossing each other diagonally; “The folk dancers wore smocked shirts”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
smock (plural smocks)
A type of undergarment worn by women; a shift or slip.
A blouse; a smock frock.
A loose garment worn as protection by a painter, etc.
smock (not comparable)
Of or pertaining to a smock; resembling a smock
Hence, of or pertaining to a woman.
smock (third-person singular simple present smocks, present participle smocking, simple past and past participle smocked)
(transitive) To provide with, or clothe in, a smock or a smock frock.
(transitive, sewing) To apply smocking.
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Smock (plural Smocks)
A surname.
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Smock is the 7485th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 4452 individuals. Smock is most common among White (94.65%) individuals.
• Mocks, mocks
Source: Wiktionary
Smock, n. Etym: [AS. smoc; akin to OHG. smocho, Icel. smokkr, and from the root of AS. sm to creep, akin to G. schmiegen to cling to, press close. MHG. smiegen, Icel. smj to creep through, to put on a garment which has a hole to put the head through; cf. Lith. smukti to glide. Cf. Smug, Smuggle.]
1. A woman's under-garment; a shift; a chemise. In her smock, with head and foot all bare. Chaucer.
2. A blouse; a smoock frock. Carlyle.
Smock, a.
Definition: Of or pertaining to a smock; resembling a smock; hence, of or pertaining to a woman. Smock mill, a windmill of which only the cap turns round to meet the wind, in distinction from a post mill, whose whole building turns on a post.
– Smock race, a race run by women for the prize of a smock. [Prov. Eng.]
Smock, v. t.
Definition: To provide with, or clothe in, a smock or a smock frock. Tennyson.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 January 2025
(adjective) being or located on or directed toward the side of the body to the west when facing north; “my left hand”; “left center field”; “the left bank of a river is bank on your left side when you are facing downstream”
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
