[Jocularly f. SMOTHER v. + -ATION: cf. botheration.]
1. The action of smothering; the state or condition of being smothered; suffocation.
1826. J. Wilson, in Blackw. Mag., XIX. 242. Nor shall we ever forget our horror on being within an ace of smotheration in the cellar.
1840. New Monthly Mag., LX. 235. Verdict of a Berkshire jury, ‘Accidental death, by natural smotheration in the snew.’
1882. W. M. Williams, Sci. in Short Chapters (1883), 51. To return the carbonic acid and excess of carbon to the already suffocated fire can only add smother to smotheration.
2. U.S. ‘A sailor’s dish of beef and pork smothered with potatoes’ (Cent. Dict.).
