smock-smelling

English

Etymology

smock (woman's undergarment) + smelling

Noun

smock-smelling (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) The activity of flirting, seducing or pursuing women.
    • 1604, Thomas Dekker, The Honest Whore, Part 2, act 4, scene 2; Rhys, Ernest, editor, Thomas Dekker, unexpurgated edition, London: Vizetelly & Co, 1887, page 259:
      A drench that's able to kill a horse, cannot kill this disease of smock-smelling, my lord, if it have once eaten deep.

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