smothery

[ smuhth-uh-ree ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

First recorded in 1595–1605; smother + -y ¹

The odor of the ointment was sickeningly sweet, and the mask gave her a hot smothery feeling.

And I laughed again till I thought there must be some elf scrambling among the rafters of that smothery ceiling.

"Well I should think the inside of a carpet-bag would be pretty smothery," observed Mollie.

In a moment they were mere fantastic shadows galloping up the hill through the smothery gloom.

No, Tom, I won't be rich, and I won't live in them cussed smothery houses.

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