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, translated by Thomas Hudson, 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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Etymology 2

Noun

smore (plural smores)

1. (nonstandard) Alternative spelling of s'more

Anagrams

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

Dutch

Pronunciation

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Verb

smore

1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of smoren

Anagrams

• morse

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /smɔː/

Verb

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

1. to smother

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) 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, published 1867, page 68