smout

English

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Noun

smout (plural smouts)

1. (dated, slang) A printer who does short-term work in various offices.

Verb

smout (third-person singular simple present smouts, present participle smouting, simple past and past participle smouted)

1. (dated, intransitive) To do occasional work.

Anagrams

• Musto, Mutos, motus

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch smout (“melted animal fat, oil”), from Old Dutch *smalt, from Proto-West Germanic *smalt, from Proto-Germanic *smaltą.

Cognate with Limburgish smout, West Flemish smout, Zealandic smout, Middle Low German smalt, Old High German smalz, Middle High German smalz, Plautdietsch Schmolt, German Schmalz, Bavarian Schmoiz, Cimbrian smaltz, Hunsrik Schmals, Luxembourgish Schmalz, Pennsylvania German Schmals, Yiddish שמאַלץ (shmalts).

More distantly related to Old English smolt, Old Norse smolt, Icelandic smolt, Norwegian Bokmål smult.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /smɑu̯t/

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• Hyphenation: smout
• Rhymes: -ɑu̯t

Noun

smout n (plural smouten, diminutive smoutje n)

1. melted and solidified animal fat

   Synonym: reuzel

2. any type of melted and solidified fat
3. (rare) any type of oil

   Synonym: olie

4. type of melted and solidified lard, often sweetened with sugar or another additive, used as bread spread

   Synonym: reuzel

Derived terms

• gesmout
• haringsmout
• leversmout
• raapsmout
• sloorsmout
• smoutachtig
• smoutdrukker
• smouten
• smoutenbol
• smouterig
• smoutig
• smoutmolen
• smoutverkoper
• smoutwerk
• smoutzetter

 

Middle Dutch

Etymology

from Old Dutch *smalt, from Proto-West Germanic *smalt.

Noun

smout n

1. melted animal fat
2. any type of oil or semi-liquid fat

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: smout
• West Flemish: smout

Further reading

• “smout”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “smout (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

West Flemish

Etymology

From Middle Dutch smout (“melted animal fat, oil”), from Old Dutch *smalt, from Proto-West Germanic *smalt.

Noun

smout n

1. type of melted and solidified lard, often sweetened with sugar or another additive, used as bread spread
2. melted and solidified animal fat

Derived terms

• smoutzochte
• smoutn