[f. SMOTHERY a.] The ‘state of being smothery’ Webster, 1847).
1889. Kansas City Times, 13 Sept., 4/1. It is with smothered displeasure that the Rev. William Smothers of Atchison looks upon his arrest for obtaining $2,000 belonging to some other fellow. He promises that this smotheriness will give way some other day, however, and some other fellows’ characters will be forever smutted.
1900. F. Kraft, in Amer. Homoeopathist, XXVI. 274/1. Fancy, then, the sensation of smotheriness which overcomes a fresh-air and sunlight-loving American when he enters and seats himself in one of these reception rooms!
