smeech n also smitch EDD ~ sb 5 'smoke' So D Co, 7 'smell, stench' So D Co. Smoke of an overpowering nature; stench; also attrib ~ roof. Cp SMEACHY.
1984 POWELL 64 But the gravy that had gone over the red-hot stove made smitch enough to knock me out at the first blast. [When I recovered] the fire had gone out and the hol[e] around the stovepipe was carrying away the smitch slowly. 1985 GUY 32 I fair feels the niceness and the mildness coming off me in waves like the heat off a stove damper or the smeech off a pair of lumberwoods stockings. 1986 Them Days xi (4), 28 The old cooperage the [Hudson's Bay Co.] had was built out of logs and he had a chimney into 'en with a big smeetch roof for heatin' the tierces.
