smit

British  

/ smɪt /

noun

1. dialect an infection

   he's got the smit

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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

There the steel hisses and the sparks upleap, And clanging anvils, smit with dexterous aim, Groan through the cavern, as their strokes they heap, And restless in the furnace pants the flame.

From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Taylor, Edward Fairfax

Are not lonely Kentuckians, ploughing, smit in the unfinished furrow?

From The Piazza Tales by Melville, Herman

By your example would Hilario mend, How would it grace the talents of my friend, Who, with the charms of his own genius smit, Conceives all virtues are compris'd in wit!

From The Poetical Works of Edward Young, Volume 2 by Young, Edward

“Then when you’ve smit your rector on one cheek you quote the Bible to make him think he ought to turn his overcoat also.”

From Hepsey Burke by Westcott, Frank N. (Frank Noyes)

If e’er Detraction shore to smit you, May nane believe him!

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert