smock.html - n. & v.
--n.

1 a loose shirtlike garment with the upper part closely gathered in smocking.
2 (also smock-frock) a loose overall, esp. hist. a field-labourer's outer linen garment.

--v.

tr. adorn with smocking. [OE smoc, prob. rel. to OE smugan creep, ON smjÇga put on a garment]

smock.html - n.
an ornamental effect on cloth made by gathering the material tightly into pleats, often with stitches in a honeycomb pattern.

smock.html - n. & v.
--n.

1 a loose shirtlike garment with the upper part closely gathered in smocking.
2 (also smock-frock) a loose overall, esp. hist. a field-labourer's outer linen garment.

--v.

tr. adorn with smocking. [OE smoc, prob. rel. to OE smugan creep, ON smjÇga put on a garment]

smock.html - n.
an ornamental effect on cloth made by gathering the material tightly into pleats, often with stitches in a honeycomb pattern.

smock.html - See: CHAIN-SMOKE, GO UP IN FLAMES or GO UP IN SMOKE, PUT THAT IN YOUR PIPE AND SMOKE IT, WATCH ONE'S DUST or WATCH ONE'S SMOKE.

smock.html - {v. phr.}, {informal} To smoke very heavily and continuously. * /"If you continue smoking like a chimney" the doctor told my uncle, "you'll wind up in the hospital with lung cancer."/