Smee
Various meanings of the word "smee":
Duck
According to Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, the word "smee" is a variation of the word "smew".
Smew \Smew\, n. [Perhaps for ice-mew.] (Zo["o]l.) (a) small European merganser (Mergus albellus) which has a white crest; -- called also smee, smee duck, white merganser, and white nun. (b) The hooded merganser. [Local, U.S.]
Smee refers to a variety of ducks: pintail
duck, widgeon, diving duck, and smew.
Subject Matter Expert (SME)
SME is a homophone of the TLA SME
pronounced as a word, such as Subject Matter Expert
History of "smee":
L.M. Montgomery coined the word "smee" in 1923. "Smee" is a word that describes a cat's presence, appearance, and feel. Its meaning is similar to words such as cuddly, cute and soft.
An example of the word in use is: "My cat is very smee. I love him." L.M. Montgomery introduces the word in Emily of New Moon (1923).
Film
Peter Pan
Smee is a fictional character in the Peter Pan mythos. He is Captain Hook's right-hand man and bo'sun in J. M. Barrie's play Peter Pan and the novel Peter and Wendy. He seems an oddly genial man for a pirate — Barrie describes him as "a man who stabbed without offence" — and is shown in the multiple movies as a rather stupidly entertaining man interested in loot rather than Hook's more evil pleasures. Loyal to Hook and enjoying his life as a pirate, he still manages to appear more as a child's trouble causing uncle than a genuinely bad man.
In J. V. Hart's Capt. Hook: The Adventures of a Notorious Youth, "Smee" is said to be short for the name "Bartholomew Quigley Smeethington", which is perhaps his real name ("Smee" could just be a nickname given to him by Captain Hook).
In the Disney film, Peter Pan, Smee is voiced by Bill Thompson. In all other Disney productions, he is voiced by Jeff Bennett. Kazuo Kumakura does his Japanese voice. In most Disney storybooks Smee is supposedly Hook's first mate, while some Disney storybooks refer to him as the cook. Smee actually refers to both the first mate and the cook in the third person during the film, so his actual position on the ship may remain unknown; in Peter Pan and Wendy Smee is the boatswain and Starkey is first mate. The only thing that is certain is that Smee is Captain Hook's "left hand man."
This version of Smee appears in House of Mouse and the
Hook
In the 1991 Steven Spielberg film Hook, Smee is portrayed by actor Bob Hoskins. In the film, Smee is more concerned with himself than his loyalty to Captain Hook, and can be seen escaping Hook's ship with heaps of assorted treasure near the end of the movie. He is also apparently popular with some of the adult women in Neverland.
Literature
Smee is also a main character in the novel Peter and the Starcatchers and Peter and the Shadow Thieves, both written by Ridley Pearson and Dave Barry. He is loyal to the Black Stache, the name held by Captain Hook before he lost his hand.
Finally, "Smee" is the name of a ghost story written by A.M. Burrage, in which Christmas Eve party-goers participate in what turns out to be a spooky game by the same name.
References
Barry, J.M. (1904.) Peter Pan
Hart, J.V. (1953). Capt. Hook: The Adventures of a Notorious Youth
Montgomery, L.M. Emily of New Moon (1923). Available at http://www.gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0201141.txt
Pearson, Ridley and Dave Barry. (2004). Peter and the Starcatchers
Pearson, Ridley and Dave Barry. (2006). Peter and the Shadow Thieves
smee. (n.d.). Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. Retrieved August 23, 2007, from Dictionary.com website: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/smee
Spielberg, Steven. (1991.) Hook.
Parker, Rosemary. (1989). Ghost Stories
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