Definition of "smothery" []

• Upper Southern U.S. Confined. Used of a place: "Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don't” ( Mark Twain). (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Sleep on a porch, or in a room with windows on two sides wide open, and the average living-room or office begins to feel stuffy and "smothery" at once."
• "Lots of women love to accuse men of being immature when the fellow in question displays a reluctance to "commit" – though what is childish about being self-sufficient and showing understandable reluctance to throw oneself into a smothery relationship with an obviously unhappy fellow human being because surely only extremely unhappy people look to others for salvation escapes me somewhat."
• "Not the full ones, they feel smothery, but the nice ones for just across your eyes"