smock

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Marisa puts on her favorite smock when she works on her paintings.

noun

The definition of a smock is a loose dress or blouse that you wear over your clothing to protect the clothing.
A loose cotton shirt that you put on that covers the front and back of your clothes is an example of a smock.

verb

Smock is to decorate clothing or other items by gathering fabric to one-third of its width and then sewing over the gathers so that the fabric can stretch.
An example of smock is to gather pleats of fabric around the neck and sleeves of a garment in the Middle Ages.

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smock

a long, loose, shirtlike outer garment worn to protect the clothes
Archaic a chemise, or sliplike undergarment
a loose-fitting woman's or girl's dress or top having smocking at the bust

Origin of smock

Middle English smoc from Old English smoc or Old Norse smokkr from Indo-European an unverified form (s)meugh from base an unverified form meug-, slippery, to slip, slip on from source smuggle, meek, Classical Latin mucus

to dress in a smock
to decorate with smocking

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smock

noun

A loose coatlike outer garment, often worn to protect the clothes while working.

transitive verb

smocked, smock·ing, smocks

To clothe in a smock.
To decorate (fabric) with smocking.

Origin of smock

Middle English woman's undergarment from Old English smoc

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Noun

(plural smocks)

A woman's undergarment; a shift; a chemise.
A blouse; a smock frock.
A loose garment worn as protection by a painter, etc.

Adjective

(not comparable)

Of or pertaining to a smock; resembling a smock
Hence, of or pertaining to a woman.

Verb

(third-person singular simple present smocks, present participle smocking, simple past and past participle smocked)

To provide with, or clothe in, a smock or a smock frock. Alfred Tennyson.
To apply smocking.

Origin

From Old English smoc; akin to Old High German smocho, Icelandic smokkr, and from the root of Old English smgan (“to creep"), akin to German schmiegen (“to cling to, press close"). Middle High German smiegen, Icelandic smjga (“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.