smout
English
Pronunciation
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Noun
smout (plural smouts)
- (dated, slang) A printer who does short-term work in various offices.
Verb
smout (third-person singular simple present smouts, present participle smouting, simple past and past participle smouted)
- (dated, intransitive) To do occasional work.
Anagrams
- Musto, Mutos, motus
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch smout (“melted animal fat, oil”), from Old Dutch *smalt, from Proto-West Germanic *smalt, from Proto-Germanic *smaltą.
Cognate with Limburgish smout, West Flemish smout, Zealandic smout, Middle Low German smalt, Old High German smalz, Middle High German smalz, Plautdietsch Schmolt, German Schmalz, Bavarian Schmoiz, Cimbrian smaltz, Hunsrik Schmals, Luxembourgish Schmalz, Pennsylvania German Schmals, Yiddish שמאַלץ (shmalts).
More distantly related to Old English smolt, Old Norse smolt, Icelandic smolt, Norwegian Bokmål smult.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /smɑu̯t/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: smout
- Rhymes: -ɑu̯t
Noun
smout n (plural smouten, diminutive smoutje n)
- melted and solidified animal fat
- Synonym: reuzel
- any type of melted and solidified fat
- (rare) any type of oil
- Synonym: olie
- type of melted and solidified lard, often sweetened with sugar or another additive, used as bread spread
- Synonym: reuzel
Derived terms
- gesmout
- haringsmout
- leversmout
- raapsmout
- sloorsmout
- smoutachtig
- smoutdrukker
- smouten
- smoutenbol
- smouterig
- smoutig
- smoutmolen
- smoutverkoper
- smoutwerk
- smoutzetter
Middle Dutch
Etymology
from Old Dutch *smalt, from Proto-West Germanic *smalt.
Noun
smout n
- melted animal fat
- any type of oil or semi-liquid fat
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
- Dutch: smout
- West Flemish: smout
Further reading
- “smout”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “smout (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I
West Flemish
Etymology
From Middle Dutch smout (“melted animal fat, oil”), from Old Dutch *smalt, from Proto-West Germanic *smalt.
Noun
smout n
- type of melted and solidified lard, often sweetened with sugar or another additive, used as bread spread
- melted and solidified animal fat
Derived terms
- smoutzochte
- smoutn