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GURUving Donating Member (707 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-02-04 08:41 PM
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What is a smock?
and do you have one?

Is it a good thing?

What a strange word: SMOCK!!!!!!
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THUNDER HANDS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-02-04 08:42 PM
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1. isn't that what you wear when you paint?
That's what I remember that word from - art class in middle school
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Bronco69 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-02-04 08:43 PM
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2. Yes
I remember in first grade I had to wear a painting smock. :-)
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supernova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-03-04 12:27 AM
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9. I wear a smock
when I do any kind of messy work: painting, messy cooking, yard work. It does save your clothes.
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jimbo fett Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-02-04 08:58 PM
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3. It's the past tense of "smack". ;-)
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GreatCaesarsGhost Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-02-04 09:06 PM
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4. steve allen used it as a catch-phrase
smock! smock!
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ming Donating Member (48 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-03-04 12:14 AM
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5. Sounds like
the name of a sloppy Vulcan?
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kixot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-03-04 12:19 AM
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6. The sound a New Englander makes when slapping someone?
Smock?
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cally Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-03-04 12:23 AM
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7. Ummm, how old are you
Edited on Sat Jan-03-04 12:31 AM by cally
It can be an artists wrap,but I think it's a loose fitting peasant blouse

Edit: spelling
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supernova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-03-04 12:25 AM
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8. Also smocking
on dresses. That's the style of sewing machine work that gathers the fabric together in a criss-cross pattern, making it stretchy. Usually across the breast.
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ornotna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-03-04 12:31 AM
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10. shmuck
A clumsy or stupid person; an oaf.


Ahh...oops :P
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