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smit

/ smɪt /

noun

  1. the smit dialect.
    an infection

    he's got the smit

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of smit1

Old English smitte a spot, and smittian to smear; related to Old High German smiz, whence Middle High German smitz
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Example Sentences

Some lines shine out in the current context, a banker cries in anger 'It hath smit my credit!',

I declare, said my uncle Toby, smit with pity, I know of none; unless it be the pleasure which it has pleased God—— A fiddlestick! quoth she.

"Just so, and keeps his own lodgin' house in that little smit on a cottage across the creek on the Brookhouse farm road."

Many who belonged not to the orders, smit with desire for the glory of martyrdom, cast the mantles of Templars around them, and went cheerfully to death as such.

No wonder, indeed, he was smit with surprize— This empire of Nature was new to their eyes— Cut short in their course by so splendid a scene, Such a region of wonders intruding between!

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