smithereens

Senso (Inglese)

Fragments or splintered pieces; numerous tiny disconnected items.

Concetti

brandelli

brandello

pezzetto

sinonimi

pieces

fragment

piece

shard

shive

shivers

shrapnel

splinters

wisp

broken into small fragments

smashed to atoms

fragments and splinters

rasura

chip

fragmentary grain

Traduzioni

miettes

Splitter

Fetzen

kleine Stücke

tausend Stücke

θρύμματα

θρύψαλα

lambeau

morceaux

smithereens

gruzelementen

diggelen

pedacinhos

añicos

triza

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/smɪðəˈɹiːnz/

Etimologia (Inglese)

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