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▪ I. smearing, vbl. n.|ˈsmɪərɪŋ|
[f. smear v. + -ing1.]
1. The action or process of anointing, daubing, etc., with some unctuous substance; a substance used for this purpose; a layer of ointment, paint, etc., smeared on.
c1000in Assmann Ags. Hom. xvi. 36 æniᵹ þing..on smyrunge oððe on wyrtum..þæt ðu myhtest myne wunde myd ᵹehælan. c1000Sax. Leechd. II. 174 Balzaman smiring wiþ eallum untrumnessum. 1340Ayenb. 148 He ssel þerto do þe smeringes and þe plastres of zuete warningges. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. v. xxvi. (Bodl. MS), Þe cure is resting and smering by somme vnguementes. 1611Cotgr., Linition, a smearing, annointing,..rubbing. 1668Wilkins Real Char. 247 Smearing, daubing. c1790J. Imison School Arts II. 54 Lay a piece of clean paper upon it, to prevent smearing. 1805R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. II. 1154 They are collected together,..in order to undergo the operation of smearing or salving. 1853Kane Grinnell Exped. xxxvi. (1856) 326 A smearing of red sealing-wax. 1893Handbk. Brit. Pottery & Porc. (Mus. Pract. Geol.) 58 Smearing..is produced by the evaporation, or volatilisation, of certain glazes in closed saggers. 1893[see dagga2]. 1948E. Rosenthal African Switzerland iii. 34 Smearing..is a Basuto custom. You may have noticed that all the native huts are covered on the outside with a layer of mud, and this again is worked into all kinds of pretty and complicated patterns. That is smearing.
attrib.1814Scott Wav. xlv, The hovel..seemed to be intended for what is called, in the pastoral counties of Scotland, a smearing-house. 1844H. Stephens Bk. Farm III. 1117 The sheep should be laid on the smearing-stool. 1875Encycl. Brit. I. 397 The smearing material is a salve composed of tar and butter. 1940G. Seldes Witch Hunt p. xiii, But surely there ought to be some resort to the American spirit of fair play in combating underhanded smearing campaigns.
2. In Jazz, the production of a smear or glissando.
1934S. R. Nelson All about Jazz ii. 61 The subtle slurring and smearing of to-day would have astonished some of the early players. 1952B. Ulanov Hist. Jazz in Amer. (1958) vi. 66 Filhe..contrasted his low-register looping and smearing with Bab Frank.
▪ II. smearing, ppl. a.|ˈsmɪərɪŋ|
[f. smear v. + -ing2.]
a. In Jazz, pertaining to a smear or slurring effect.
b. Slanderous.
1958P. Gammond Decca Bk. of Jazz iv. 57 The smearing, broad glissandi of Christian's trombone. a1974R. Crossman Diaries (1976) II. 627 We also have to overcome something else—the stream of anti-government propaganda, smearing, snarky, derisive, which comes out of Fleet Street. |
单词 smearwort 释义 † smearwort Obs.Forms: 1 smeoru-, smerowyrt, 4 smerowo(r)t, 5 smerw(o......