smothercate
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From blend of smother + suffocate.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈsmʌðɚ.keɪt/
- Rhymes: -eɪt
Verb
[edit]smothercate (third-person singular simple present smothercates, present participle smothercating, simple past and past participle smothercated)
- To smother and suffocate.
References
[edit]- “smothercate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- Joseph Wright, editor (1905), “SMOTHERCATE”, in The English Dialect Dictionary: […], volume V (R–S), London: Henry Frowde, […], publisher to the English Dialect Society, […]; New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC.
- ^ Olga Kornienko, Grinin L, Ilyin I, Herrmann P, Korotayev A (2016) “Social and Economic Background of Blending”, in Globalistics and Globalization Studies: Global Transformations and Global Future[1], Volgograd: Uchitel Publishing House, →ISBN, pages 220–225