Smocking

Definition: Smocking

Smocking

Noun

1. Embroidery consisting of ornamental needlework on a garment that is made by gathering the cloth tightly in stitches.

Commercial Usage: Smocking

Domain	Title
Books	Dianne Durand's Complete Book of Smocking (reference) Mary Thomas's Embroidery Book: Including Applique, Patchwork, Quilting, Initials and Monograms, Fringes and Tassels, Smocking, Seams and Hems (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Australian Smocking And Embroidery (reference) (more periodical examples)

Consumer Goods	Swiss Lace Christening gown with Smocking and Bonnet (reference) (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Smocking

"Smocking" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Smocking" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	66.67%	2	245,945
Noun (singular)	33.33%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	3	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Smocking

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
smocking	223	creative smocking	4
smocking pattern	32	australian smocking embroidery	3
smocking plate	31	direction smocking	3
smocking supply	21	amanda jane smocking pleater	3
machine smocking	16	pattern plate smocking	3
free plate smocking	12	australian magazine smocking	3
pleaters smocking	11	beginner smocking	3
pleater smocking	11	smocking kit	3
free pattern smocking	11	lattice smocking	3
english smocking	10	smocking stitch	2
instructions smocking	9	class smocking	2
america arts guild smocking	8	board smocking	2
australian smocking	6	free instructions smocking	2
dress smocking	6	picture smocking	2
gun smocking	5	smocking template	2
gingham pattern smocking	4	smocking magazine	2
hand smocking	4	smocking fabric	2
smocking design	4	smocking technique	2
arts guild smocking	4	dress hand made smocking	2
dress shop smocking	4	custom smocking	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Smocking

Language		Translations for "smocking"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
German		Faltenbesatz (furbelow). (various references)

Greek		πιέτεσ. (various references)

Pig Latin		ockingsmay

Russian		мелкая сборка. (various references)

Spanish		adorno de frunces. (various references)

Turkish		petek biçiminde iğne işi, büzgü (gathering, pucker, shir, shirr). (various references)

Ukrainian		дрібні зборки. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Smocking

Derivations
	Words beginning with "smocking": smockings. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Smocking" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: macking, smokeing. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Smocking

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-g-i-k-m-n-o-s"
	-1 letter: comings, mocking, smoking, socking.
	-2 letters: coigns, coking, coming, cosign, gnomic, incogs.
	-3 letters: cions, coign, coins, conks, ginks, gismo, icons, ikons, incog, kings, kinos, micks, minks, mocks, monks, nicks, nocks, oinks, osmic, scion, sicko, skimo, smock, snick, sonic.
	-4 letters: cigs, cion, cogs, coin, coni, conk, cons, gink, gins, icon, ikon, inks, ions, king, kino, kins.
	Words containing the letters "c-g-i-k-m-n-o-s"
	+1 letter: smockings.
	+2 letters: miscooking, mosaicking.
	+4 letters: locksmithing, misreckoning, mockingbirds.
	+5 letters: locksmithings.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.