Now dial. Also 7–8 smickit. [app. dim. of SMOCK sb.] A woman’s smock or chemise; a small smock.
In use during the 19th cent. in many dialects.
c. 1685. Adv. to Maidens Lond., ii. in Bagford Ballads (1878), 935. Susan and Joan they will have a Top-Knot, although they have never a Smicket.
c. 1690. in Roxb. Ball. (1883), IV. 439. Stripping of all their Cloaths, their Gowns, their Petticoats, Shoes and Hose, Their fine white smickits then stripping.
1718. Ozell, trans. Tournefort’s Voy., I. 219. Over this Smicket they wear a large smock. Ibid. Thus are their richest Smickets no better than a penitential Shirt.
1772. Brydges, Hom. Trav. (1797), I. 337. His dear Nelly, who had scarce An undarn’d smicket.
1815. W. H. Ireland, Scribbleomania, 141. Misses … Who, drench’d, ne’er catch cold, though without change of smickets.
1820. Combe, Syntax, Consol., V. II. 199. The white smickets wave below, While … The petticoats appear’d as banners.
1897. E. Phillpotts, Lying Prophets, 177. I found the whole fortune hid beneath her smickets.
