| 词汇 | smellsmock |
| 词源 | smellsmock. Licentious priests were called smellsmocks in the early 16th century because people thought their sexual af- fairs made their smocks smelly and because they knew how to “smell a smock,” how to recognize an easy conquest. Smells- mock soon came to cover any licentious man, but it survives to- day only as the popular name of several plants such as the cuckooflower and the woodsorrel. |
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