smit

/ smɪt /

noun

1. 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

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

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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.

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

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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.

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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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