smithereens
plural noun
small pieces; bits.
smithers
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a variation of
smithereens.
Example Sentences
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Isn't there a grand looking-glass in a gold frame gone to smithers with your shooting?
From Our Casualty, and Other Stories 1918 by George A. Birmingham
The old lady nearly blowed us into shivers and smithers, many times.'
From Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
Although these were amply secured at the commencement of the gale one of them, that on the port side, was smashed to smithers; probably some spar had fallen upon it.
From When the World Shook; being an account of the great adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot by Henry Rider Haggard
O then bespake her little son, Sate on the nurse's knee: Says, "Mither dear, gi'e o'er this house, For the reek it smithers me."
From A Bundle of Ballads by Henry Morley
Oh, then out spake her youngest son, Sat on the nurse's knee: Says—'Mither, dear, gie o'er this house, For the reek it smithers me.'
From Women of England by Bartlett Burleigh James
