Noun: smooth
| Singular | smooth |
| Plural | smooths |
Sample Sentences
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The smooth of his neck. [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 27:16:]
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I think you and I will take the ups and the downs , the roughs and the smooths of this daily existence and conversation [1861 January – 1862 August, W[illiam] M[akepeace] Thackeray, The Adventures of Philip on His Way through the World; […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], published 1862, →OCLC:]
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Things are often equalized by roughs and smooths being set against one another. [1860, Anne Manning, The Day of Small Things, page 81:]
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She brushes down her hair with a little bit of spit and a smooth of her hand and opens the bright green door, walking a few metres, squinting. [2006, Julienne Van Loon, Road Story, →ISBN, page 12:]
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In the 4-toe stock there is a wide gap between the lowest rough and the smooths which come from the same parents. [1916, William Ernest Castle, Sewall Wright, Studies of Inheritance in Guinea-pigs and Rats, page 104:]
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By the early 1970s, skinhead culture began to mutate into the variant ‘white ethnic’ styles of the suedeheads and smooths. [1999, Peter Childs, Mike Storry, Encyclopedia of Contemporary British Culture, →ISBN, page 188:]
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A smooth of the potato data set has already been given in Figure 1.2. [1990, Wolfgang Härdle, Applied Nonparametric Regression, →ISBN, page 17:]
Nouns inflected like smooth
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Old English smōþ
3. Middle English smothe
4. Proto-West Germanic *smanþī
5. Old English smēþe
6. Middle English smethe
7. English smooth
8. From Middle English smothe, smethe, from Old English smēþe, smōþ, both from Proto-West Germanic *smanþī, of unknown origin. Cognate with Scots smuith (“smooth”), Saterland Frisian smoud (“smooth”), Low German smood and smödig (“smooth, malleable, ductile”), Dutch smeuïg (“smooth”) (from earlier smeudig). See: Middle English Nouns '
smothe', Old English Nouns '
smēþe'.
Verbs referencing "smooth"
German Nouns
Schmand.