Swelts vs Smelts - What's the difference?
swelts | smelts |
(swelt)
(obsolete, outside, dialect) To die.
(obsolete, outside, dialect) To succumb or be overcome with emotion, heat, etc.; to faint or swelter
(obsolete) (swell)
As verbs the difference between swelts and smelts
is that swelts is third-person singular of swelt while smelts is third-person singular of smelt.As a noun smelts is
plural of lang=en.swelts
English
Verb
(head)swelt
English
Etymology 1
Old English sweltan. Cognate to Dutch .Verb
(en verb)- (Bishop Hall)