scomfish

From scomfit, from discomfit.

scomfish (third-person singular simple present scomfishes, present participle scomfishing, simple past and past participle scomfished)

1. (archaic, intransitive, transitive, Scotland) To suffocate, stifle, or smother.

• “scomfish”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.