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What does smothery mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word smothery? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Tending to smother; stifling.
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Remember the smothery feather-beds, and the ice-cold pickled beets and pie 15 for breakfast?
No, Tom, I won't be rich, and I won't live in them cussed smothery houses.
The works go whole hog for Freud and this can be cloying or smothery.
And I laughed again till I thought there must be some elf scrambling among the rafters of that smothery ceiling.
The dry feeling now left him for one that was hot and smothery, seemingly caused by having on too much clothing.
In a moment they were mere fantastic shadows galloping up the hill through the smothery gloom.

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