smear campaign
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
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smeghead
A fool.
smell a rat
Suspect that something is wrong or deceitful
smell blood
Sense an opportunity to take advantage of someone
smell fishy
seem suspicious or wrong
smell like a rose
to seem perfect or flawless
smell like a tart's handbag
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
smell of an oily rag
something that is very cheap or of poor quality
smell of the lamp
A sign of something being overstudied or overly researched
smell of the shop
to have a strong connection to a particular job or industry
smell one's own farts
To be self-satisfied or complacent
smell the barn
to be close to finding something
smell what someone is stepping in
to understand someone's situation or problem
smeller
The nose.
smeller
A nose. Smellers: a cat's whiskers.
smeller
The nose; "a blow on the SMELLER" is often to be found in pugilistic records. Otherwise a NOSE-ENDER.
smelling cheat
An orchard, or garden; also a nosegay. CANT.
smelly freckle
The anus.
smicket
A smock, or woman's shift.
smile a thousand smiles
to smile repeatedly and genuinely
smile from ear to ear
To smile very widely, showing great happiness
smile, and the world smiles with you; cry, and you cry alone
English proverb; full definition pending editorial review.
smiler
The mouth.
smirk
A finical spruce fellow. To smirk; to smile, or look pleasantly.
smish
A shirt, or chemise.
smite hip and thigh
To utterly defeat or destroy someone or something
smiter
An arm. To smite one's tutor; to get money from him. ACADEMIC TERM.
smith
(Capt. Alexander), The Thieves’ Grammar, 12mo, p. 28. 17—.
Smith of Nottingham
Applied to conceited persons who imagine that no one is able to compete with themselves. Ray, in his Collection of Proverbs, has the following couplet: — The little Smith of Nottingham Who doth the work that no man can.
Smith's Prize-man
One who has obtained the prize (£25), founded at Cambridge by Robert Smith, D.D. (1689-1768) (Master of Trinity, 1742-68), for proficiency in mathe- matics and natural philosophy. There are annually two prizes, awarded to two com- mencing Bachelors of Arts.
smithers
Or SMITHEREENS; "all to SMITHEREENS," all to smash, SMITHER is a Lincolnshire word for a fragment.
smithfield bargain
A bargain whereby the purchaser is taken in. This is likewise frequently used to express matches or marriages contracted solely on the score of interest, on one or both sides, where the fair sex are bought and sold like cattle in Smithfield.
smith’s
(Capt.) Compleat History of the Lives and Robberies of the most Notorious Highwaymen, Footpads, Shoplifters, and Cheats, of both Sexes, in and about London and Westminster, 12mo, vol. i. 1719.
smock-face
A white delicate face,—a face without whiskers.
smoke
London. From the peculiar dense cloud which overhangs London. The metropolis is by no means so smoky as Sheffield, Birmingham, &c.; yet country-people, when going to London, frequently say they are on their way to the SMOKE; and Londoners, when leaving for the country, say they are going out of the SMOKE.
smoke and joke
A fixed-order word pair (irreversible binomial); full definition pending editorial review.
smoke and mirrors
Deception.
smoke like a chimney
to smoke a lot of cigarettes
smoke one's own dope
To believe one's own propaganda or hype
smoke out
to force someone to reveal their position or intentions
smoke pole
A firearm.
smoke signal
A signal or message that is vague or indirect
smoke the whole pack
To do something thoroughly or completely
smoke-filled room
A secret meeting of powerful people making important decisions
smoking gun
Conclusive evidence of a crime or wrongdoing
smoky
Curious, suspicious, inquisitive.
Smollett's Humphrey Clinker
Fond of disputa- tion, jealous of honour, and brimful of national pride, he marries Miss Tabitha Bramble.
smooth down
to make something less rough or unpleasant
smooth operator
A person who is skilled at manipulating others to get what they want
smooth sailing
A situation or process that is easy and without problems
smouch
Dried leaves of the ash tree, used by the smugglers for adulterating the black or bohea teas.
smudge
To smear, obliterate, daub. Corruption of SMUTCH.
smug
To seize; to confiscate.
smug
A nick name for a blacksmith; also neat and spruce.
smug
Smuggling.—Anglo-Chinese.
smug lay
Persons who pretend to be smugglers of lace and valuable articles; these men borrow money of publicans by depositing these goods in their hands; they shortly decamp, and the publican discovers too late that he has been duped; and on opening the pretended treasure, he finds trifling articles of no value.
smuggings
Snatchings, or purloinings,—shouted out by boys, when snatching the tops, or small play property, of other lads, and then running off at full speed.
smut
Bawdy. Smutty story; an indecent story.
smut
A copper boiler. Also, the "blacks" from a furnace.
smutty
Obscene,—vulgar as applied to conversation. Variation of dirty.
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