Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A compositor who has occasional employment in various printing-offices.
  • To perform occasional work, when out of constant employment.

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Examples

  • This saves the trouble and waste of time in reeling up many yards of line every time a "smout" comes on.

    Scotch Loch-Fishing William Senior

  • 'How could a skinny wee smout like that hold so much liquid?'

    Quite Ugly One Morning Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 1996

  • I never, in the whole course of my life, was fond of lending the sanction of my countenance to any thing that was not canny; and, even when I was a wee smout of a callant, with my jacket and trowsers buttoned all in one,

    The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith David Macbeth Moir 1824

  • I never, in the whole course of my life, was fond of lending the sanction of my countenance to any thing that was not canny; and, even when I was a wee smout of a callant, with my jacket and trowsers buttoned all in one,

    The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself David Macbeth Moir 1824

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