English Explanatory Dictionary

smous

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A peddler.
  2. A Jew from Germany or Eastern Europe.
verb
  1. To go about selling goods, as an itinerant peddler.

Word forms

smous smouses smaus smause smouse smouch smousing smoused

Etymology

Borrowed from Afrikaans smous or Dutch smous, from a Yiddish word whose precise origin is uncertain. One theory is that it derives from Yiddish משה (moyshe, “Moses”), pronounced moushe in Western Yiddish, from Hebrew מֹשֶׁה (moshé, “Moses”).

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