smouse

See also: Smouse

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from German schmausen (“to feast”).

Verb

smouse (third-person singular simple present smouses, present participle smousing, simple past and past participle smoused)

1. (intransitive, transitive, archaic) To feast (on something).
   • 1775, [Francis Blackburne], A Few Strictures on the Confessional: […], London: T. Payne, page 12:

     "Here, Honeſty, take this bill of fare: here is a liſt of ſome plain diſhes, which I ſhall neyer be averſe from; and which I could ſafely venture to ſmouze plentifully upon."

   • 1839, Aristophanes, translated by J[ohn] Hookham Frere, The Acharnians and Two Other Plays of Aristophanes;, London: J. M. Dent & Co.; New York, N.Y.: E. P. Dutton & Co., published 1909, page 149:

     On the summer berries brousing, / On the garden fruits carousing, / All the grubs and vermin smousing.

Alternative forms

• smouze

Etymology 2

Noun

smouse (plural smouses)

1. Alternative form of smous

Verb

smouse (third-person singular simple present smouses, present participle smousing, simple past and past participle smoused)

1. Alternative form of smous

Anagrams

• mouses, mousse