subs. (old).—A woman: cf. PETTICOAT, PLACKET, SKIRT, MUSLIN, &c. Hence, in combination = pertaining to, or connected with women. Thus SMOCKAGE = the use of the sex; SMOCK-ALLEY = the female pudendum: see MONOSYLLABLE; SMOCK-FACE = an effeminate: SMOCK-FACED = ‘snout-fair’ (B. E.), ‘fair-faced’ (GROSE), smooth-faced; SMOCK NIGHT-WORK (SERVICE, or EMPLOYMENT) = copulation; SMOCK-LOYALTY = constancy; SMOCK-TREASON = adultery; SMOCK-SERVANT = (1) a mistress, and (2) a lover; SMOCK-AGENT = a bawd; SMOCKSTER (SMOCK-MERCHANT, SMELL-SMOCK, or SMOCK-TEARER) = a whoremonger: SMELL-SMOCK also = the penis, and as adj. = wanton; SMOCK-VERMIN = a contemptuous address; SMOCK-TOY = a fancy PIECE (q.v.), male or female; SMOCK-SECRET = intrigue; SMOCK-HOLD = tenure during a wife’s lifetime; SMOCK-GOVERNMENT (or SMOCK-LED) = petticoat rule; SMOCK-PENSIONER = a male KEEP (q.v.): also SMOCK-SQUIRE; SMOCK-HUNTING = whoring; SMOCK LOOSE = wanton; IN HER SMOCK = intimately; SMOCK-RACE (see quot. 1801); &c. As verb. = to copulate (FLETCHER): see RIDE.
1582. STANYHURST, Æneid, iv. 222. Now this SMOCK-TOY Paris with berdlesse company wayted.
1585. FLEMING, The Nomenclator, 528b. Mulierarius,… One giuen to loue women: a SMELLSMOCKE.
1595. SHAKESPEARE, Romeo and Juliet, ii. 4, 109. [Enter Nurse and Peter]. Mer. A sail, a sail! Ben. Two, two; a shirt and a SMOCK. Ibid. (1598), All’s Well that Ends Well, ii. 1, 30. I shall stay here, the forehorse to a SMOCK. Ibid. (1608), Antony and Cleopatra, i. 2, 172. If there were no more women but Fulvia, then had you indeed a cut, and the case to be lamented; this grief is crowned with consolation; your old SMOCK brings forth a new petticoat.
1599. CHAPMAN, An Humorous Day’s Mirth [SHEPHERD, Works (1874), 35. 1]. He was taken learning tricks at old Lucilla’s house, the muster-mistress of all the SMOCK-TEARERS in Paris. Ibid. (1605), All Fooles, v. 1. Some wealth without wit, some nor wit nor wealth, But good SMOCK-FACES. Ibid. (1612), The Widow’s Tears, i. 1 [SHEPHERD, Works (1874), 314]. Shalt hold thy tenement to thee and thine heirs for ever, in free SMOCKAGE, as of the manner of panderage.
1611. JONSON, Cataline, iv. 5.
| Sem. Good sir, | |
| There are of us can be as exquisite traitors | |
| As e’er a male-conspirator of you all. | |
| Cet. Ay, at SMOCK-TREASON, matron, I believe you. | |
| Ibid. (1632), The Magnetic Lady, iv. 7. | |
| Come, come, be friends, and keep these women-matters, | |
| SMOCK-SECRETS to ourselves, in our own verge. |
1611. COTGRAVE, Dictionarie, s.v. Brigaille. A noteable SMELSMOCKE, or mutton-mungar, a cunning solicitor of a wenche.
1624. MASSINGER, The Renegado, ii. 1.
| Car. Coarse! ’tis but procuring; | |
| A SMOCK EMPLOYMENT. | |
| Ibid. (1632), The Maid of Honour, ii. 2. | |
| You are not the man; much less employ’d by him | |
| As a SMOCK-AGENT to me. | |
| Ibid. iii. 1. | |
| Rod. Peace, thou SMOCK-VERMIN! | |
| Ibid., (1637), The Guardian, iii. 5. | |
| Now I think on’t, | |
| I had ever a lucky hand in such SMOCK NIGHT-WORK. |
[?]. A Catalogue of Books of the Newest Fashion [Harleian Miscellany, V. 257]. SMOCK-PECKED Sh——k.
1630. TAYLOR (‘The Water Poet’), Workes, ii. 167.
| This Theame of SMOCKE is very large and wide, | |
| And might (in verse) be further amplifide: | |
| But I thinke best a speedy end to make, | |
| Lest for a SMEL-SMOCKE some should me mistake. |
1653. URQUHART, Rabelais, I. xi. His governesses … very pleasantly would pass their time in taking you know what between their fingers…. One … would call it her … Roger … SMELL-SMOCK … lusty live sausage, &c.
1657. MIDDLETON, More Dissemblers besides Women, i. 4. If thou dost not prove as arrant a SMELL-SMOCK as any the town affords in a term-time. I’ll lose my judgement in wenching.
1663. The Unfortunate Usurper [NARES].
| SMELL-SMOCK Saidanapalus would have given | |
| The moiety of his kingdom to be his pupil. |
1680. DRYDEN, The Spanish Friar, ii. 1. Plague and pox on his SMOCK-LOYALTY! Ibid. (1692), Juvenal, x. 491. Young Endymion, your smooth SMOCK-FAC’D boy.
d. 1704. T. BROWN, Works, ii. 123. I was a smart child, and a SMOCK-FAC’D youth.
1706. WARD, The Wooden World Dissected, 69. If ever he’s troubled with Dreams … then truly he oft fancies himself a mauling off the Roast-meat in SMOCK-ALLEY. Ibid. (1709), Works, i. 173. Skilful SMOCKSTERS … Tell us that Love’s a drowthy exercise.
1746. Poor Robin. A whoremaster hath a SMELL-SMOCK nose which for the most part in process of time proves bridge-fallen.
1801. J. STRUTT, The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England, 476. SMOCK RACES are commonly performed by the young country wenches, and so called because the prize is a holland SMOCK, or shift, usually decorated with ribbands.
1809. MALKIN, Gil Blas [ROUTLEDGE], 136. Pacheco did not know what to make of so SMOCK-FACED a young spark.
1879. LECKY, A History of England in the Eighteenth Century, I. iv. Among other amusements, SMOCK-RACING by women was kept up there [Pall Mall] till 1733.
