smous

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A peddler. South-Africa,historical
  2. A Jew from Germany or Eastern Europe. South-Africa,historical
动词 v.
  1. To go about selling goods, as an itinerant peddler. South-Africa,historical
    — Not only South Africans, White and Black, but fortune hunters from Europe and America, Indian and Chinese labourers and traders, and Jews from the ghettoes (sic) and shtetles of Eastern Europe, who had come to 'smous' […]

词形变化

smouses plural smaus alternative smause alternative smouse alternative smouch alternative smouses present,singular,third-person smousing participle,present smoused participle,past smoused past smaus alternative smause alternative smouse alternative smouch alternative

词源

词源 1
Borrowed from Afrikaans smous or Dutch smous, from a Yiddish word whose precise origin is uncertain. One theory is that it derives from Yiddish משה (moyshe, “Moses”), pronounced moushe in Western Yiddish, from Hebrew מֹשֶׁה (moshé, “Moses”).
词源 2
Borrowed from Afrikaans smous or Dutch smous, from a Yiddish word whose precise origin is uncertain. One theory is that it derives from Yiddish משה (moyshe, “Moses”), pronounced moushe in Western Yiddish, from Hebrew מֹשֶׁה (moshé, “Moses”).
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