Obs. [f. SMOOTH a. + BOOT sb.3 Cf. SLY-BOOT(S.] One who uses flattering, ingratiating or plausible language; a bland or smooth-tongued person. Usually in pl. form.

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1599.  Minsheu, Sp. Dict., Halagadór, a smoothbootes, a flatterer, a faire spoken man, a cunning tongued fellow.

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a. 1610.  [see SLEEKSTONE 2].

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1691.  Wood, Life, 21 April. Dr. Nathaniel Foy bishop of Waterford:… a smooth boots.

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1707.  Hearne, Collect. (O.H.S.), II. 8. The V.C. (whom some Waggs call a second Smoothboots). Ibid. (1709), 175. Old Smoothboots the Vice-Chancellor.

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  Hence † Smooth-booted a., flattering, fawning, soft-spoken. Obs.

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1706.  Hearne, Collect. (O.H.S.), I. 231. Just such another smooth-booted Complyer. Ibid. (1708), II. 101. Ye last smooth booted, speaking Oxford Address. Ibid. (1710), III. 28. That old smooth-booted, self-interested,… paultry Lancaster.

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