smore

== English == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /smɔː(ɹ)/ Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ) === Etymology 1 === See smoor. ==== Verb ==== smore (third-person singular simple present smores, present participle smoring, simple past and past participle smored) (obsolete, transitive) To smother. 16th century, unknown writer, untitled ballad Loud, loud cried out the bonnie son, Stood at the nurse's knee, "Gie our your house, my mother dear," The reek is smoring me!" ==== References ==== “smore”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. === Etymology 2 === ==== Noun ==== smore (plural smores) (nonstandard) Alternative spelling of s'more. === Anagrams === moser, meros, morse, somer, Somer, moers, Moser, omers, Morse, mores, mesor, Romes, Mores == Dutch == === Pronunciation === === Verb === smore (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of smoren === Anagrams === morse == Yola == === Etymology === From Middle English smoren, from Old English smorian (“to smother, suffocate, choke”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /smɔːr/ === Verb === smore (simple past smort, past participle ee-smort) to smother === References === Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 68