smock

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• Received-Pronunciation: /smɒk/
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• General-American: /smɑk/
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• rhymes with -ɒk
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• CMU ARPABET: S M AA1 K Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English smok, from Old English smocc, smoc, from Proto-Germanic *smukkaz (“something slipped into”). Akin to Old High German smocho, Icelandic smokkur, and from the root of Old English smugan (“to creep”), akin to German schmiegen (“to cling to, press close”). Middle High German smiegen, Icelandic smjúga (“to creep through, to put on a garment which has a hole to put the head through”); compare with Lithuanian smukti (“to glide”). See also smug, smuggle.

English surname, from the noun smock. See also Smoker.

42 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: комбинезон (kombinezon) — undergarment
• Czech: spodnička — undergarment
• Czech: kombiné — undergarment
• French: blouse — undergarment
• Galician: chambra — undergarment
• Galician: guirindola — undergarment
• Japanese: 下着 (shitagi) — undergarment
• Latin: involucre — undergarment
• Norman: blouse — undergarment
• Polish: kitel — undergarment
• Russian: соро́чка — undergarment
• Welsh: crys — undergarment
• Bulgarian: широка блуза (široka bluza) — a blouse
• Czech: halena — a blouse
• Czech: halenka — a blouse
• Finnish: pusakka — a blouse
• French: blouse — a blouse
• Galician: brusa — a blouse
• Norman: blouse — a blouse
• Polish: bluza — a blouse
• Russian: блу́зка (blúzka) — a blouse
• Russian: блу́за (blúza) — a blouse
• Swedish: blus — a blouse
• Welsh: crys — a blouse
• Bulgarian: работно облекло (rabotno obleklo) — a loose garment worn as protection
• Chinese Mandarin: 罩衫 (zhàoshān) — a loose garment worn as protection
• Czech: pracovní plášť — a loose garment worn as protection
• Czech: šatová zástěra — a loose garment worn as protection
• French: blouse — a loose garment worn as protection
• Japanese: 仕事着 (shigotogi) — a loose garment worn as protection
• Japanese: スモック (sumokku) — a loose garment worn as protection
• Central Kurdish: بەرکۆش (berkoş) — a loose garment worn as protection
• Latvian: halāts — a loose garment worn as protection
• Norman: blouse — a loose garment worn as protection
• Polish: kitel — a loose garment worn as protection
• Portuguese: avental — a loose garment worn as protection
• Portuguese: bata — a loose garment worn as protection
• Russian: блу́за (blúza) — a loose garment worn as protection
• Russian: хала́т — a loose garment worn as protection
• Russian: спецо́вка (specóvka) — a loose garment worn as protection
• Swedish: blus — a loose garment worn as protection
• Welsh: crys — a loose garment worn as protection