smell-smock

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(Cranmer), ‘swillbowl’ (Stubbs), ‘smell-smock’, ‘cumberwold’ (Drayton),

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  1. One who runs after women; a licentious man. [Low.] If thou dost not prove as arrant a smell-smock as any the town affords in a term-time, I'll lose my judgment. Middleton, More Dissemblers Besides Women, i, 4.
  2. The lady's-smock, Cardamine pratensis; rarely, the wind-flower, Anemone nemorosa, Britten and Holland, Eng. Plant Names. [Provincial English]

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