核心畫面

Think of a piece of cloth with a hole for your head, wide enough that you just drop it on. No buttons to work through, no belt, no shaping at the waist — you slip into it and it hangs straight from your shoulders. That easy, loose, over-the-head shape is the picture inside smock, and each use is that shape doing a different job. Put it at the bottom of everything, next to the skin, and it is the old linen under-garment of past centuries. Wear it on its own and it is a loose shirt or dress you choose because it is cool and comfortable. Drop it over the clothes you are already wearing and it is the thing that catches the paint instead of your shirt. The verb comes from the cloth of such garments being gathered into rows of tiny folds.

可以想成:一塊布,中間留一個洞給頭,寬到你直接套下去就好。不用一顆一顆扣,也沒有腰帶,不收腰——套進去,它就從肩膀直更多收起可以想成:一塊布,中間留一個洞給頭,寬到你直接套下去就好。不用一顆一顆扣,也沒有腰帶,不收腰——套進去,它就從肩膀直直垂下來。這個「套上去、寬寬鬆鬆」的形狀,就是 smock 裡面的畫面,而每一個用法都是同一個形狀在做不同的工作。放在最底層、貼著皮膚,它就是舊時代的麻布貼身衣。單穿,它就是你為了涼快舒服而選的寬鬆上衣或洋裝。套在已經穿好的衣服外面,它就是替你擋顏料的那一件。至於縫紉的那個動詞,來自這類衣服上一排排抓起來的細褶。

From the word’s history

Wiktionary traces smock to Old English smocc, from Proto-Germanic *smukkaz, 'something slipped into', and links it to Old English smugan, 'to creep', with German schmiegen and Icelandic smjuga as relatives — one gloss there is literally 'to put on a garment which has a hole to put the head through'. The oldest idea is a garment you slip into over your head, which is still the shape the word names.

依 Wiktionary 的說法,smock 來自古英語 smocc,再往前是原始日耳曼語的 *smukkaz「鑽進去的東西」,並跟古英語 smugan「鑽、爬進去」有關;那裡甚至直接提到「穿上一件留了頭洞的衣服」這個解釋。最早的想法就是「從頭上鑽進去穿的那件」,今天這個字指的還是同一個形狀。

Wiktionary (kaikki extract) entry 'smock', source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:992152648:13753

One branch

套上去的寬鬆衣服

這三個都是同一件寬鬆衣服,只是穿的位置不同:最裡面、單穿、或套在最外面。

noun · B2

A long, loose shirt or a loose dress that hangs straight down from the shoulders instead of fitting at the waist.

寬鬆長衫;寬鬆洋裝

原始詞典資料8 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Smockname

  • 1

    A surname.

smocknoun/smɒk/

  • 1

    A type of undergarment worn by women; a shift or slip.

    • c. 1960s (version), 14th century' (originally published), Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, The Clerk's Prologue and Tale Before the folk herself stripped she, And in her smock, with foot and head all bare, Toward her father's house forth is she fare.
  • 2

    A blouse; a smock frock.

    • And women were in that gabarre [boat]; whom the Red Nightcaps were stripping naked; who begged, in their agony, that their smocks might not be stript from them.
  • 3

    A loose garment worn as protection by a painter, etc.

smockadj/smɒk/

  • 1

    Of or pertaining to a smock; resembling a smock

  • 2

    Hence, of or pertaining to a woman.

smockverb/smɒk/

  • 1

    To provide with, or clothe in, a smock or a smock frock.

  • 2

    businessmanufacturingsewingTo apply smocking.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。