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smock-smelling en · NOUN

Etymology

From smock (“woman's undergarment”) + smelling.

Meanings

1. (obsolete, uncountable) The activity of flirting, seducing or pursuing women.
   • A drench that's able to kill a horse, cannot kill this disease of smock-smelling, my lord, if it have once eaten deep. 1604, Thomas Dekker, The Honest Whore, Part 2, act 4, scene 2; Rhys, Ernest, editor, Thomas Dekker, unexpurgated edition, London: Vizetelly & Co, 1887, page 259:

Relateds

smell-smock

Synonyms

philandering · womanizing · wenching