Now rare or Obs. Also smoutch. [Alteration of SMOUSE sb.]

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  1.  A Jew.

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1765.  C. Johnston, Chrysal (1794), III. 60. I hate them [the Inquisitors] mortally ever since I saw them roast some poor Smouches at Lisbon because they would not eat pork.

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1785.  R. Cumberland, Observer, No. 38, ¶ 2. Smoke the Jew!… Throw him over, says another, hand over the smoutch!

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1826.  Scott, Jrnl., I. 137. I took lessons of oil painting … from a little Jew animalcule; a smouch called Burrell.

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1842.  Barham, Ingol. Leg., Ser. II. Merch. V. (1905), 246. You find fault mit ma pargains, and say I’m a Smouch.

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  2.  S. African. An itinerant trader.

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1849.  E. E. Napier, Excurs. S. Africa, II. 391. I dare say … you have heard that I have turned a regular ‘smoutch,’ the Colonial term for trader.

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