smous

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#1·15h ago

(South Africa, historical) To go about selling goods, as an itinerant peddler.

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#2·15h ago

(chiefly, South Africa, historical) A peddler.

Origin: Borrowed from or , from a word whose precise origin is . One theory is that it derives from , pronounced moushe in Western Yiddish, from. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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#3·15h ago

(chiefly, South Africa, historical) A Jew from Germany or Eastern Europe.

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