smous

词形变化

smouses 复数 smouses smoused smouses 三单 smousing smousing 现在分词 smoused 过去式 smoused 过去分词

别名

smaus smause smouse smouch

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A peddler.

    南非 历史
  2. 2.

    A Jew from Germany or Eastern Europe.

    南非 历史
v.
  1. 1.

    To go about selling goods, as an itinerant peddler.

    南非 历史

词源

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”).

来源:wiktionary