Meaning

noun a loose coverall (coat or frock) reaching down to the ankles

verb embellish by sewing in straight lines crossing each other diagonally

originFrom Middle English smok, from Old English smocc, smoc, from Proto-Germanic *smukkaz (“something slipped into”). Akin to Old High German smocho, Icelandic smokkur, and from the root of Old English smugan (“to creep”), akin to German schmiegen (“to cling to, press close”). Middle High German smiegen, Icelandic smjúga (“to creep through, to put on a garment which has a hole to put the head…

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