smore

smore

See also: s'more and smøre

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /smɔː(ɹ)/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)

Etymology 1

See smoor.

Verb

smore (third-person singular simple present smores, present participle smoring, simple past and past participle smored)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To smother.
   • 1584, Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, Thomas Hudson (translator), Judith

     Some dying vomit blood, and some were smored.

   • 16th century, unknown writer, untitled ballad

     Loud, loud cried out the bonnie son,
     Stood at the nurse's knee,
     "Gie our your house, my mother dear,"
     The reek is smoring me!"

References

• smore in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Noun

smore (plural smores)

1. (nonstandard) Alternative spelling of s'more

Anagrams

• Mores, Morse, Moser, Romes, meros, mesor, moers, mores, morse, omers, somer

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Dutch

Pronunciation

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Verb

smore

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of smoren

Anagrams

• morse

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Etymology

From Middle English smoren, from Old English smorian (“to smother, suffocate, choke”).

Verb

smore (simple past smort or smorth, past participle ee-smort)

1. to smother

References

• Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 68