word of the day :: smithereens

smithereens:

[smith-uh-reenz]

–plural noun

small pieces; bits: broken into smithereens.

  

Origin:

1820-30;  dial. smithers  (< ?) + Hiberno-E -een  dim. suffix (< Ir-ín )

"With him love of country means blowing it all to smithereens and having it all made over new."

:: Robert Frost ::

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