=a fancy piece (q.v.), male or female; smock-secret=intrigue; smock-hold = tenure during a wife's lifetime; smock-government (or smock-led) = petticoat rule; smock-pensioner = a male keep (q.v.): also smock-squire; smock-hunting = whoring; smock loose = wanton; in her smock = intimately; smock-race (see quot. 1801); &c. As verb. = to copulate (Fletcher): see Ride.
1582. Stanyhurst, Æneid, iv. 222. Now this smock-toy Paris with berdlesse company wayted.
1585. Nomenclator, 528. Mulie-*rarius, one given to love women, a smell-smocke.
1595. Shakspeare, Romeo and Juliet, ii. 4, 109. [Enter Nurse and Peter]. Mer. A sail, a sail! Ben. Two, two; a shirt and a smock. Ibid. (1598), All's Well, ii. 1, 30. I shall stay here, the fore-*horse to a smock. Ibid. (1608), Antony and Cleopatra, i. 2, 172. If there were no more women but Fulvia, then had you indeed a cut, and the case to be lamented; this grief is crowned with consolation; your old smock brings forth a new petticoat.
1599. Chapman, Humorous Day's Mirth [Shepherd, Works (1874), 35]. He was taken learning tricks at old Lucilla's house, the muster-mistress of all the smock-tearers in Paris. Ibid. (1605), Al Fooles, v. i. Some wealth without wit, some nor wit nor wealth, But good smock-faces. Ibid. (1612), Widow's Tears [Shepherd, Works (1874), 314]. Shalt hold thy tenement, to thee and thine heers for ever, in free smockage, as of the manner of panderage.
1611. Jonson, Cataline, iv. 5. Sem. There are of us can be as exquisite traitors As e'er a male conspirator of you all. Cet. Ay, at smock-treason, matron, I believe you. Ibid. (1632), Magnetic Lady, iv. 2. Keep these women matters smock-secrets to ourselves.
1611. Cotgrave, Dict. s.v. Brigaille, A noteable smelsmocke, or mutton-mungar, a cunning solicitor of a wenche.
1624. Massinger, Renegado, ii. 1. 'Tis but procuring a smock-employment. Ibid. (1632), Maid of Honour, ii. 2. You are not the man; much less employ'd by him As a smock-agent to me. Ibid. iii.
1. Peace, thou smock-vermin! Ibid. (1637), Guardian, iii. 5. Now I think I had ever a lucky hand in such smock night-work.
[?]. Cat. of Books of the Newest Fashion [Harl. Misc., v. 287]. Smock-peck'd S.
1630. Taylor, Works, ii. 167. This theame of smocke is very large and wide . . . But I thinke best a speedy end to make, Lest for a smelsmocke some should me mistake.
1653. Urquhart, Rabelais, i. xi. And some of the . . . women would give these names, my Roger . . . smell-smock . . . lusty live sausage.
1657. Middleton, More Dissemblers, &c., i. 4. If thou dost not prove as arrant a smell-smock as any the town affords in a term time I'll lose my judgement.
1663. Unfortunate Usurper [Nares], Smell-smock Sardanapalus would have given The moiety of his kingdom to be his pupil.
1680. Dryden, Spanish Friar, ii. 1. Plague . . . on his smock-loyalty. Ibid. (1692), Juvenal, x. 491. Young Endymion, your smooth smock-fac'd boy.
d.1704. Brown, Works, ii. 123. I was a smart child, and a smock-fac'd youth.
1706. Ward, Wooden World, 69. If ever he's troubled with Dreams . . . then truly he oft fancies himself a mauling off the Roast-meat in Smock-Alley. Ibid. (1709), Works, i. 173. Skilful smocksters . . . Tell us that Love's a drowthy exercise.
1746. Poor Robin. A whoremaster hath a smell-smock nose which for the most part in process of time proves bridge-fallen.
1801. Strutt, Sports and Pastimes, 476. Smock Races are commonly performed by the young country wenches, and so-called because the prize is a holland smock, or shirt, usually decorated with ribbands.
1809. Malkin, Gil Bias [Routledge], 136. Pacheco did not know what to make of so smock-faced a young spark.
1879. Lecky, English in 18th Cent., iv. Among other amusements smock-racing by women was kept up there [Pall Mall] till 1733.
