Coconut and Lime: Rachel chooses one favorite original recipe for each month of the year, including one with the very intriguing name "smearcase". From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-12-01] Reference
The P's take us from pandowdy to pompey to pudjicky; the Q's offer qualmish, quick start, and quiddle; in R we find ramstugious, redd up, robin snow, and rumpelkammer; and S yields saluggi, say-so, and smearcase. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XXIII No 4] Reference
One finds also here and there a word from the “Pennsylvania Dutch,” such as “waumus” for a loose jacket, from the German wamms, a doublet, and “smearcase” for cottage cheese, from the German schmierkaese. From Wordnik.com. [The Hoosier Schoolmaster]
Then when mother had put a nice clean valance, freshly starched and ruffled, around the big four-poster bed in the sitting-room, Will would daub it up with smearcase, and just before the preachers arrived, sneak in under it, and wait for prayers. From Wordnik.com. [Last of the Great Scouts The Life Story of William F Cody]
225 slumgullion, 96 slung, 275 slush, 223, 225 slush-fund, 199 small, 94 small pearl, 132 small pice, 132 small-potatoes, 41, 95 small-wares, 115 smart, 39 smash, 99 smearcase, 54 smearkase, 251 smell, v. From Wordnik.com. [Mencken, H] Reference
The contributions of the Dutch during the half century of their conflicts with the English included cruller, cold-slaw, dominie (for parson), cookey, stoop, span (of horses), pit (as in peach-pit), waffle, hook (a point of land), scow, boss, smearcase and Santa Claus. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 2. The Beginnings of American. 2. Sources of Early Americanisms] Reference
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