smock-smelling

English

Etymology

From smock (“woman's undergarment”) +‎ smelling.

Noun

smock-smelling (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) The activity of flirting, seducing or pursuing women.
   • 1604, Thomas Dekker, The Honest Whore, Part 2, act 4, scene 2; Rhys, Ernest, editor, Thomas Dekker‎^[1], unexpurgated edition, London: Vizetelly & Co, 1887, page 259:

     A drench that's able to kill a horse, cannot kill this disease of smock-smelling, my lord, if it have once eaten deep.

Synonyms

• philandering, wenching, womanizing

Related terms

• smell-smock