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smee

Smew \Smew\, n. [Perhaps for ice-mew.] (Zo["o]l.)

  1. small European merganser ( Mergus albellus) which has a white crest; -- called also smee, smee duck, white merganser, and white nun.

  2. The hooded merganser. [Local, U.S.]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
smee

"pintail duck," 1660s, reduced from earlier smeath (1620s), probably from Middle Dutch smeente.

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smee

n. The pintail, wigeon, pochard, or smew.

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Smee (disambiguation)

Smee may refer to:

  • Anthony Smee, English theatre producer and actor
  • Phil Smee, English music journalist and album cover designer
  • Sebastian Smee, Australian arts critic for The Boston Globe
  • Mr. Smee, character in J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan novels

Usage examples of "smee".

Hauptfuhrer and Vern Feck were explaining something about gapangle blocking to Dennis Smee.

He rose out of it into the arms of Cecco, who flung him to Smee, who flung him to Starkey, who flung him to Bill Jukes, who flung him to Noodler, and so he was tossed from one to another till he fell at the feet of the black pirate.

Moving on the ground, Centrex picked up three, eight, nine, then lost four on a good tackle by Dennis Smee who went spinning off a block and hit the ballcarrier very hard around the midsection as he hesitated while bellying out on a sweep.

Barney Smee had no difficulty in understanding the silver-haired investor who called himself Richards and had a driving licence to prove it.