See also: s'more and smøre

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Etymology 1

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See smoor.

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smore (third-person singular simple present smores, present participle smoring, simple past and past participle smored)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To smother.
    • 1584, Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, translated by Thomas Hudson, Judith:
      Some dying vomit blood, and some were smored.
    • 16th century, unknown writer, untitled ballad
      Loud, loud cried out the bonnie son,
      Stood at the nurse's knee,
      "Gie our your house, my mother dear,"
      The reek is smoring me!"

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Etymology 2

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Noun

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smore (plural smores)

  1. (nonstandard) Alternative spelling of s'more

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smore

  1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of smoren

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Etymology

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From Middle English smoren, from Old English smorian (to smother, suffocate, choke).

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smore (simple past smort, past participle ee-smort)

  1. to smother

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  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 68