English

Noun

smock ‎(plural smocks)

1. A woman's undergarment; a shift; a chemise.
   • 14th century, Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, The Clerk's Prologue and Tale

     Before the folk herselfe stripped she,

     And in her smock, with foot and head all bare,

     Toward her father's house forth is she fare.

2. A blouse; a smock frock.
   • 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History

     And women were in that gabarre [boat]; whom the Red Nightcaps were stripping naked; who begged, in their agony, that their smocks might not be stript from them.

3. A loose garment worn as protection by a painter, etc.

Translations

Adjective

smock ‎(not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to a smock; resembling a smock
2. Hence, of or pertaining to a woman.

Derived terms

• smock mill
• smock race

Verb

smock ‎(third-person singular simple present smocks, present participle smocking, simple past and past participle smocked)

1. (transitive) To provide with, or clothe in, a smock or a smock frock.
2. (transitive) To apply smocking.

References

• smock in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Anagrams

• mocks