Smoting offense

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What does 'smoting offense' mean? I've just heard it in a movie but no dictionary seems to dispel my doubts.

AlpheccaStars · Accepted Answer

Tomasz KlepinowskiWhat does 'smoting offense' mean?

Smote is the simple past tense of smite. Smoting is not a valid word. Are you sure this is what you heard?

Clive · Answer

I don't think the word you heard was 'smoting'. That's not an English word.
Listen again.
Was it 'smoking'?

Tomasz Klepinowski · Answer

Well, it was what I heard and it coincided with subtitles. The movie was 'Rat race' from 2001 and the context regarded to stealing gas from other car which the man considered a sin whereas the woman said something like 'relax, we're just siphoning some gas, it's not a smoting offense'.

Fivejedjon · Answer

The previous line was "*** is going to smote us.; we're gonna get smote!"

The characters are ignorantly (or amusingly) misusing parts of the verb 'smite'.

AlpheccaStars · Answer

Smite is a very old-fashioned verb in the King James Bible used when *** punishes people severely for sinning, or when the armies of the Hebrews beat another king's armies. It means to hit very hard - to kill something or someone.

And the hail smote throughout all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both man and beast; and the hail smote every herb of the field, and brake every tree of the field.

And it came to pass, that at midnight the Lord smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.

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Well, it was what I heard and it coincided with subtitles. The movie was 'Rat race' from 2001 and the context regarded to stealing gas from other car which the man considered a sin whereas the woman said something like 'relax, we're just siphoning some gas, it's not a smoting offense'.

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