smewhat.html - n.
a small merganser, Mergus albellus. [17th c., rel. to smeath, smee = smew, widgeon, etc.]

smewhat.html - {v. phr.}, {informal} To be suspicious; feel that something is wrong. * /Every time Tom visits me, one of my ashtrays disappears. I'm beginning to smell a rat./ * /When the policeman saw a light go on in the store at midnight, he smelled a rat./

smewhat.html - See: FERRET OUT.

smewhat.html - {v.}, {informal} To make a bad smell. * /A skunk smelled up our yard last night./ * /Mr. Brodsky's cigar smelled up the living room./

smewhat.html - v. & n.
--v.

tr.
1 daub or mark with a greasy or sticky substance or with something that stains.
2 blot; smudge; obscure the outline of (writing, artwork, etc.).
3 defame the character of; slander; attempt to or succeed in discrediting (a person or his name) publicly.

--n.

1 the act or an instance of smearing.
2 Med. a material smeared on a microscopic slide etc. for examination. b a specimen of this.

smear test = cervical smear.

smearer n. smeary adj. [OE smierwan f. Gmc]

smewhat.html - n.
a sebaceous secretion in the folds of the skin, esp. of the foreskin.

smegmatic adj. [L f. Gk smegma -atos detergent f. smekho cleanse]