smicket
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From a diminutive of smock.
Noun[edit]
smicket (plural smickets)
- (obsolete, UK, dialect) A woman's undergarment; a smock.
- 1719, Thomas D'Urfey, Wit and Mirth; Or, Pills to Purge Melancholy:
- Chase her, and praise her, if fair or brown,
Sooth her , and smooth her,
And teaze her , and please her ,
And touch but her Smicket, and all's your own
References[edit]
- “smicket”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.