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smout.

melted and solidified animal fat

5 characters1 syllables approx.Nederlands language

Meaning & usage

noun/smɑu̯t/
  1. melted and solidified animal fat

    neuter
  2. any type of melted and solidified fat

    neuter
  3. any type of oil

    neuter · rare
  4. type of melted and solidified lard, often sweetened with sugar or another additive, used as bread spread

    neuter
Where this word comes from

From Middle Dutch smout (“melted animal fat, oil”), from Old Dutch *smalt, from Proto-West Germanic *smalt, from Proto-Germanic *smultą. Cognate with Limburgish smout, West Flemish smout, Zealandic smout, Middle Low German smalt, Old High German smalz, Middle High German smalz, Plautdietsch Schmolt, German Schmalz, Bavarian Schmoiz, Cimbrian smaltz, Hunsrik Schmals, Luxembourgish Schmalz, Pennsylvania German Schmals, Yiddish שמאַלץ (shmalts). More distantly related to Old English smolt, Old Norse smolt, Icelandic smolt, Norwegian Bokmål smult.

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