smell-smock

English

Etymology

smell +‎ smock (“woman's undergarment”)

Noun

smell-smock (plural smell-smocks)

(obsolete) A promiscuous man.
- 1604, Thomas Dekker, The Honest Whore, Part 2, act 4, scene 1; Rhys, Ernest, editor, Thomas Dekker‎, unexpurgated edition, London: Vizetelly & Co, 1887, page 247:
  As arrant a smell-smock, for an old muttonmonger as thyself.
(British, dialect) A plant, the cuckooflower or lady's smock (Cardamine pratensis).
(British, dialect) A plant, the wood sorrel (Oxalis acetosella).

Synonyms

(promiscuous man): wencher, womanizer; see also Thesaurus:promiscuous man

Related terms

(promiscuous man): smock-smelling

References

Wright, Joseph (1904) The English Dialect Dictionary‎, volume 5, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 552

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