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smous

The English word “smous” has 3 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A peddler.
  2. A Jew from Germany or Eastern Europe.

verb

  1. To go about selling goods, as an itinerant peddler.

Etymology

Borrowed from Afrikaans smous or Dutch smous, from a Yiddish word whose precise origin is uncertain. One theory is that it derives from Yiddish משה (moyshe, “Moses”), pronounced moushe in Western Yiddish, from Hebrew מֹשֶׁה (moshé, “Moses”).

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