smit

/ smɪt /

noun

1. the smit dialect.
   an infection

   he's got the smit

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

Example Sentences

A library patron found 57-year-old Paulus Cornelius Smit, who went by the nickname Dutch, stabbed to death.

From The Daily Beast

And hearing of it, all the lords of earth smit with love speedily came thither, desirous of (possessing) Damayanti.

From Project Gutenberg

He was not under my control, he was under the control of Smit.

From Project Gutenberg

Sun-smit, bare as a nose it stood at the cross-roads, receiving us through its drab door-way as it had done from the first.

From Project Gutenberg

The generalship of their fighting Commandant, Nikolas Smit, was of the highest order.

From Project Gutenberg

In this sun-smit cottage she had left her mother to find a place in the outside world just as I had left my mother in Dakota.

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