sb. pl. colloq. and dial. [Of obscure origin; cf. prec.] = SMITHEREENS.

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1847.  Halliw., Smithers, fragments; atoms. Linc.

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1847.  FitzGerald, Lett. (1889), I. 171. One brother is a rascal—another a spend thrift…—the family all gone to smithers.

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1857.  Mrs. Carlyle, Lett., II. 341. Having one’s nerves ‘all gone to smithers.’

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1865.  Dickens, Mut. Fr., IV. xiii. Blowed us into shivers and smithers.

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