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語源

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”).

名詞

smous (複数形 smouses)

1. (chiefly South Africa, historical) A peddler.
2. (chiefly South Africa, historical) A Jew from Germany or Eastern Europe.

動詞

smous (三人称単数 現在形 smouses, 現在分詞 smousing, 過去形および過去分詞形 smoused)

1. (South Africa, historical) To go about selling goods, as an itinerant peddler.
   • 2021, Anne Fuchs, Playing the Market (page 49)

     Not only South Africans, White and Black, but fortune hunters from Europe and America, Indian and Chinese labourers and traders, and Jews from the ghettoes (sic) and shtetles of Eastern Europe, who had come to 'smous' […]

アナグラム

• Musso, musos, soums, sumos