Green’s Dictionary of Slang

to break, to smash into pieces; thus adjs. smithereeneed, smithereening.

1901		Sporting Times 8 June 1/3: He never liked to explain why he smithereened a porcelain teacup.
1916		Tatler (London) 5 Jan. 32/1: He mourns him as one dead, that Silent Knight of Coventree, struck and semi-smithereened by a Hun shrapnel shell.
1927		H. Crane in Transition Dec. 136: Lo, Lord, Thou ridest! Lord, Lord, Thy swifting heart Naught stayeth, naught now bideth But’s smithereened apart! Ay! Scripture flee’th stone !
1943		Bath Chron. 10 Apr. 11/4: By Wednesday evening they had smithereened their target and had reached £5,300.
1952		Tatler (London) 15 Oct. 44/1: [Y]our own champion horse-chestnut [...] was smithereened at first go.
1958		T. Capote Breakfast at Tiffany’s 85: The bottle of liniment flung from her hand, smithereened on the tile floor.
1964		Economist 16 May 699/2: Dum-dum bullets or smithereening explosives .
1977		T. Berger Who is Teddy Villanova? 226: Smithereened on Union Square.
1999		Guardian Editor 11 June 14: It smithereened the Tebbit Test at every turn.
2009		L. McIlvanney All the Colours 132: We weren’t being smithereened in our shopping malls and pubs.