smout

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smout (plural smouts)

1. (dated, slang) A printer who does short-term work in various offices.

smout (third-person singular simple present smouts, present participle smouting, simple past and past participle smouted)

1. (dated, intransitive) To do occasional work.

• Musto, Mutos, motus

From Middle Dutch smout (“melted animal fat, oil”), from Old Dutch *smalt, from Proto-West Germanic *smalt, from Proto-Germanic *smultą.

Cognate with Limburgish smout, West Flemish smout, Zealandic smout, Middle Low German smalt, Old High German smalz, Middle High German smalz, Plautdietsch Schmolt, German Schmalz, Bavarian Schmoiz, Cimbrian smaltz, Hunsrik Schmals, Luxembourgish Schmalz, Pennsylvania German Schmals, Yiddish שמאַלץ (shmalts).

More distantly related to Old English smolt, Old Norse smolt, Icelandic smolt, Norwegian Bokmål smult.

• IPA^(key): /smɑu̯t/

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• Hyphenation: smout
• Rhymes: -ɑu̯t

smout n (plural smouten, diminutive smoutje n)

1. melted and solidified animal fat

   Synonym: reuzel

2. any type of melted and solidified fat
3. (rare) any type of oil

   Synonym: olie

4. type of melted and solidified lard, often sweetened with sugar or another additive, used as bread spread

   Synonym: reuzel

from Old Dutch *smalt, from Proto-West Germanic *smalt.

smout n

1. melted animal fat
2. any type of oil or semi-liquid fat

• Dutch: smout
• West Flemish: smout

• “smout”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “smout (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

From Middle Dutch smout (“melted animal fat, oil”), from Old Dutch *smalt, from Proto-West Germanic *smalt.

smout n

1. type of melted and solidified lard, often sweetened with sugar or another additive, used as bread spread
2. melted and solidified animal fat

• smoutzochte
• smoutn