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Smashing
Definitions
- 1 Serving to smash (something).
"The boxer delivered a smashing blow to his opponent's head."
- 2 Wonderful, very good or impressive. British, Ireland
"We had a smashing time at the zoo."
- 1 excellent wordnet
- 1 The breaking or destruction of (something brittle) in a violent manner.
"Some Greek dance is traditionally accompanied by the smashing of crockery."
- 2 the act of breaking something into small pieces wordnet
- 3 The destruction or disintegration of something by being smashed.
- 4 The hitting of something extremely hard.
- 5 The complete and sudden ruin or ruination of something.
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- 6 An overwhelming victory or success. idiomatic, informal
- 7 The deformation of something through continuous pressure.
- 8 An act of sexual intercourse. slang, vulgar
- 9 A disastrous failure of something. archaic, slang
- 1 present participle and gerund of smash form-of, gerund, participle, present
Etymology
From smash + -ing. As a synonym for wonderful, the term first appeared in the United States in the early twentieth century, and possibly derives from the sense of smash used in smash hit and similar terms. Popular folk etymology connects the term to the broadly homophonous Irish is maith sin or Scottish Gaelic 's math sin ("that is good"), but this has been described as "improbable", and does not appear in the etymological dictionaries.
From smash + -ing. As a synonym for wonderful, the term first appeared in the United States in the early twentieth century, and possibly derives from the sense of smash used in smash hit and similar terms. Popular folk etymology connects the term to the broadly homophonous Irish is maith sin or Scottish Gaelic 's math sin ("that is good"), but this has been described as "improbable", and does not appear in the etymological dictionaries.
From smash + -ing. As a synonym for wonderful, the term first appeared in the United States in the early twentieth century, and possibly derives from the sense of smash used in smash hit and similar terms. Popular folk etymology connects the term to the broadly homophonous Irish is maith sin or Scottish Gaelic 's math sin ("that is good"), but this has been described as "improbable", and does not appear in the etymological dictionaries.
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