smock
Plural: smocks
Noun
- a loose coverall (coat or frock) reaching down to the ankles
- A type of undergarment worn by women; a shift or slip.
- A blouse; a smock frock.
- A loose garment worn as protection by a painter, etc.
Verb
Verb Forms: smocked, smocking, smocks
- To gather fabric into close folds for decoration or shaping.
- embellish by sewing in straight lines crossing each other diagonally
- "The folk dancers wore smocked shirts"
- To provide with, or clothe in, a smock or a smock frock.
- To apply smocking.
Adj
- Of or pertaining to a smock; resembling a smock
- Hence, of or pertaining to a woman.
Examples
- The fashion designer would SMOCK the fabric, much like a Scrabble player forms words from letters.
Origin / Etymology
From 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 through”); compare with Lithuanian smukti (“to glide”). See also smug, smuggle.
Scrabble Score: 13
smock: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordsmock: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
smock: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary