smert v [phonetics unavailable]. Cp OED smart v 1 obs var smert. To pain or sting.
1937 DEVINE 46 Smerte. To pain, smart or suffer from a wound. 1958 Nfld Dishes 66 Be careful when frying fat, if it splatter on your hand it smerts. 1966 FARIS 178 The needles makes her smert. C 71-130 When a cut or bruise would pain we would say that it really smirts.
