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Sooth vs Smoot - What's the difference?

sooth | smoot |

As nouns the difference between sooth and smoot

is that sooth is (archaic) truth while smoot is (chiefly|greater boston) a unit of length defined as exactly sixty-seven inches]] (approximately 170 [[meter|meters) or smoot can be (british) a small opening built into a dry-stone wall as a bolthole allowing a person to cross the wall while impeding the livestock.

As an adjective sooth

is (archaic) true.

sooth

English

Noun

(-)
  • (archaic) Truth.
  • * (Merchant of Venice , Act I, Scene 1)
    • In sooth , I know not why I am so sad.
  • * Longfellow
    • In good sooth , / Its mystery is love, its meaning youth.
  • (obsolete) augury; prognostication
  • * Spenser
    • The sooth of birds, by beating of their wings.
  • (obsolete) blandishment; cajolery
  • (obsolete) reality; fact

    • Derived terms

    * soothsayer * soothsaying * soothfast * forsooth

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (archaic) True.
  • * Spenser
    • That shall I sooth (said he) to you declare.
  • (obsolete) Pleasing; delightful; sweet.
  • * Milton
    • the soothest shepherd that ever piped on plains
  • * Keats
    • with jellies soother than the creamy curd

    See also

    * soothe * soothly * soothfast * forsooth

    Anagrams

    * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) ----

    smoot

    English

    Etymology 1

    (wikipedia smoot) Height of , who lay on the Harvard Bridge to measure it as an MIT fraternity prank.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (chiefly, Greater Boston) A unit of length defined as exactly sixty-seven inches]] (approximately 1.70 [[meter, meters).

    • Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (British) A small opening built into a dry-stone wall as a bolthole allowing a person to cross the wall while impeding the livestock.

    • Anagrams

    * * English eponyms