smothery
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Adjective[edit]
smothery (comparative more smothery, superlative most smothery)
- Tending to smother; smothering; stifling.
- 1880, Robert Browning, “Pan and Luna”, in Dramatic Idyls: Second Series, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC, page 143:
- But what means this? The downy swathes combine, / Conglobe, the smothery coy-caressing stuff / Curdles about her!
References[edit]
- “smothery”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.