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smithereens

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/smɪðəˈɹiːnz/
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/smɪðəˈɹiːnz/ · /ˌsmɪðəˈɹinz/

Definition of smithereens

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noun

  1. (informal, plural, plural-only)Fragments or splintered pieces; numerous tiny disconnected items.
    “The urn shattered into smithereens the moment it hit the ground.”
    “When the waiter dropped the platter, one smithereen struck him above the knee, and the four remaining smithereens scattered across the floor.”
    “The world's smallest violin / Really needs an audience / So if I do not find somebody soon (That's right, that's right) / I'll blow up into smithereens”
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noun

  1. (informal, plural, plural-only)Fragments or splintered pieces; numerous tiny disconnected items.
    “The urn shattered into smithereens the moment it hit the ground.”
    “When the waiter dropped the platter, one smithereen struck him above the knee, and the four remaining smithereens scattered across the floor.”
    “The world's smallest violin / Really needs an audience / So if I do not find somebody soon (That's right, that's right) / I'll blow up into smithereens”
  2. (form-of, plural)plural of Smithereen

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Etymology

Uncertain. The following words, all first attested later than the headword, have been compared: * Irish smidiríní, smiodairíní (“smithereens”), from smiodar (“broken piece, fragment”) + -ín (suffix forming diminutive nouns)…

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Uncertain. The following words, all first attested later than the headword, have been compared: * Irish smidiríní, smiodairíní (“smithereens”), from smiodar (“broken piece, fragment”) + -ín (suffix forming diminutive nouns) + -í (slender form of -aí (suffix forming plurals of some nouns)). * smither (“fragment; atom”), which would be suffixed with -een (forming diminutive nouns in Irish English). * Hiberno-English (Wexford) smaddereen, a variant of smattering (“small amount or number of something; shallow or superficial knowledge of a subject”). * Hiberno-English (Wexford) smithered, smashed

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