Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
smithereens .
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- noun Plural form of
smither .
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Examples
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After decades of continuing liberal hegemony in the various american episcopates the erst powerful structures of the church seem to be smashed to smithers.
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Plus, maybe it will make me season my cast iron dutch oven skillet just so I can cook this dish. junemoon smithers
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Then the charge burst, blowing the cylinder to smithers, and the axle too.
Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003
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Then he could assume dragon form or ogre form and smash the gobs to smithers and rescue the damsels.
Isle of View Anthony, Piers 1990
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Isn't there a grand looking-glass in a gold frame gone to smithers with your shooting?
Our Casualty, and Other Stories 1918 George A. Birmingham 1907
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The wonder is that the poor young woman can write at all, with her body all "gone to smithers!"
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Although these were amply secured at the commencement of the gale one of them, that on the port side, was smashed to smithers; probably some spar had fallen upon it.
When the World Shook; being an account of the great adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot Henry Rider Haggard 1890
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Some/[Page 30]/Watts have come to town, with whom he dines, &c. and it is amazing how, in a few days, he has gone all to smithers (morally).
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I declare it is a consolation for having one's nerves 'all gone to smithers,' to see how stolid and unlovable good health makes people, with the best intentions too.
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The old lady nearly blowed us into shivers and smithers, many times. '
Our Mutual Friend Charles Dickens 1841
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