smithereens

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• Ireland, Received-Pronunciation: /smɪðəˈɹiːnz/
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• General-American: /ˌsmɪðəˈɹinz/
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• rhymes with -iːnz
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• CMU ARPABET: S M IH2 DH ER0 IY1 N Z Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Uncertain. The following words, all first attested later than the headword, have been compared: * Irish smidiríní, smiodairíní (“smithereens”), from smiodar (“broken piece, fragment”) + -ín (suffix forming diminutive nouns) + -í (slender form of -aí (suffix forming plurals of some nouns)). * smither (“fragment; atom”), which would be suffixed with -een (forming diminutive nouns in Irish English). * Hiberno-English (Wexford) smaddereen, a variant of smattering (“small amount or number of something; shallow or superficial knowledge of a subject”). * Hiberno-English (Wexford) smithered, smashed

40 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: парчета (parčeta) — fragments or splintered pieces; numerous tiny disconnected items
• Bulgarian: отломки (otlomki) — fragments or splintered pieces; numerous tiny disconnected items
• Chinese Mandarin: 碎片 (suìpiàn) — fragments or splintered pieces; numerous tiny disconnected items
• Chinese Mandarin: 齏粉 /齑粉 (jīfěn) — fragments or splintered pieces; numerous tiny disconnected items
• Czech: padrť — fragments or splintered pieces; numerous tiny disconnected items
• Czech: cimprcampr — fragments or splintered pieces; numerous tiny disconnected items
• Dutch: gruzelementen — fragments or splintered pieces; numerous tiny disconnected items
• Finnish: murska — fragments or splintered pieces; numerous tiny disconnected items
• Finnish: säpäleet — fragments or splintered pieces; numerous tiny disconnected items
• Finnish: sirpaleet — fragments or splintered pieces; numerous tiny disconnected items
• Finnish: päreiksi — fragments or splintered pieces; numerous tiny disconnected items
• Finnish: tuusannuuska — fragments or splintered pieces; numerous tiny disconnected items
• French: miettes — fragments or splintered pieces; numerous tiny disconnected items
• Galician: anacos — fragments or splintered pieces; numerous tiny disconnected items
• Galician: anaquiños — fragments or splintered pieces; numerous tiny disconnected items
• German: Splitter — fragments or splintered pieces; numerous tiny disconnected items
• German: Stücke — fragments or splintered pieces; numerous tiny disconnected items
• German: Stückchen — fragments or splintered pieces; numerous tiny disconnected items
• Hebrew: רְסִיסִים (r'sisím) — fragments or splintered pieces; numerous tiny disconnected items
• Italian: frantumi — fragments or splintered pieces; numerous tiny disconnected items
• Japanese: 欠片 木っ端微塵 (kakera) — fragments or splintered pieces; numerous tiny disconnected items
• Korean: 산산조각 (sansanjogak) — fragments or splintered pieces; numerous tiny disconnected items
• Manx: smithereenyn — fragments or splintered pieces; numerous tiny disconnected items
• Norwegian Bokmål: småbiter m pl tusen knas — fragments or splintered pieces; numerous tiny disconnected items
• Norwegian Bokmål: fillebiter — fragments or splintered pieces; numerous tiny disconnected items
• Norwegian Nynorsk: småbitar — fragments or splintered pieces; numerous tiny disconnected items
• Polish: kawałeczki — fragments or splintered pieces; numerous tiny disconnected items
• Portuguese: pedacinhos — fragments or splintered pieces; numerous tiny disconnected items
• Romanian: bucățele — fragments or splintered pieces; numerous tiny disconnected items
• Russian: черепки (čerepki) — fragments or splintered pieces; numerous tiny disconnected items
• Russian: осколки (oskolki) — fragments or splintered pieces; numerous tiny disconnected items
• Serbo-Croatian: парампарчад — fragments or splintered pieces; numerous tiny disconnected items
• Serbo-Croatian: paramparčad — fragments or splintered pieces; numerous tiny disconnected items
• Spanish: añicos — fragments or splintered pieces; numerous tiny disconnected items
• Spanish: pedazos — fragments or splintered pieces; numerous tiny disconnected items
• Spanish: trozos — fragments or splintered pieces; numerous tiny disconnected items
• Spanish: cacharros — fragments or splintered pieces; numerous tiny disconnected items
• Spanish: trizas — fragments or splintered pieces; numerous tiny disconnected items
• Swedish: småbitar — fragments or splintered pieces; numerous tiny disconnected items
• Thai: ผุยผง — fragments or splintered pieces; numerous tiny disconnected items