Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Smuggrene 1505 AddCh

• Smugehoke, Smukhoke 1512 Ct

• Smugoakegreene 1608 VCHii,350

• ate Smog' 1294 SR

• Smoggefeld 15th VCHiii,420

Etymology

Smug Oak is Smuggrene 1505AddCh , Smugehoke , Smukhoke 1512Ct , Smugoakegreene 1608 VCH ii, 350, and was by the home of Hamund ate Smog ' (1294SR ). The same element is apparently found in Smoggefeld 15th VCH iii, 420, in Bayford.The word smogge or smugge is to be associated with the root found in OE  smygels , 'burrow,' smugan , 'creep, crawl,' Dan i smug , Du  ter smuig , 'secretly,' DanNorw smug-handel , 'secret trading,' LGer  smuggeln , 'smuggle' (Walde-Pokorny ii, 253–5, s. v. meuq -, meug -). The sense may be 'small hollowed-out place, secret place.' There is nothing in the present site to confirm or disprove this. The site has been much altered by the making of the railway.