smit
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of smit
Old English smitte a spot, and smittian to smear; related to Old High German smiz, whence Middle High German smitz
Example Sentences
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But she hung back, smit with sudden maidenly modesty at the sight of two such proper young men; and so her brother danced on without her.
From Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
"Just so, and keeps his own lodgin' house in that little smit on a cottage across the creek on the Brookhouse farm road."
From Out of a Labyrinth by Lynch, Lawrence L.
"I rather guess Lela Barker is some smit on him, too," put in Sile Crane.
From Rival Pitchers of Oakdale by Scott, Morgan
From nature’s birth, hence, wisdom has been smit With sweet recess, and languish’d for the shade.
From Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes by Young, Edward
Next they are smit with wonder at the black shells of a wagon-load of live lobsters packed in rock-weed for the country-market.
From Twice Told Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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