smothery
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of smothery
Example Sentences
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"Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don't," Huck says.
From Time Magazine Archive
The ground sloped precipitously; and I was holding back by the underbrush lest the bank led to water when an indistinct sound, a smothery murmur like the gurgle of a subterranean pool, came from below.
From Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut
Like a train-traveler coming out of a long, smoky, smothery tunnel Into the clean-tasting light, the White Linen Nurse came out of the prudish-smelling hospital into the riotous mud-and-posie promise of the young April afternoon.
From The White Linen Nurse by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
It was black and dark in there, but it was warm, though a bit smothery.
From The Story of a China Cat by Laura Lee Hope
All right, sir; you know best; only it is precious smothery.
From Trapped by Malays A Tale of Bayonet and Kris by Steven Spurrier
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