different between smoor vs smoot

English

Alternative forms

• smore

Etymology

From Old English smorian, akin to Dutch and Low German smoren, German schmoren (“to stew”). Compare smother.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sm??(?)/

Verb

smoor (third-person singular simple present smoors, present participle smooring, simple past and past participle smoored)

1. (transitive, obsolete, dialect, Britain, Scotland) To suffocate or smother.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir T. More to this entry?)

Anagrams

• Moors, Moros, moors, rooms

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -o?r

Verb

smoor

1. first-person singular present indicative of smoren
2. imperative of smoren

Anagrams

• Rooms

English

Etymology 1

Height of Oliver R. Smoot, who lay on the Harvard Bridge to measure it as an MIT fraternity prank.

Pronunciation

• enPR: smo?ot
• IPA^(key): /smu?t/

Noun

smoot (plural smoots)

1. (chiefly Greater Boston) A unit of length defined as exactly sixty-seven inches (approximately 1.70 meters).

Etymology 2

From Old Norse smátta

Noun

smoot (plural smoots)

1. (Britain) A small opening built into a dry-stone wall to allow sheep (and hares) to pass through.

Anagrams

• MOTOS, Tooms, moots, motos, stoom, tomos, tooms