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Compound of smile + smirk. Coined by Irish novelist and poet James Joyce in his 1922 novel Ulysses (see quotation below).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
smile-smirk
Today it means: To smile while smirking. Full definition →
Today it means: To smile while smirking. Full definition →
Compound of smile + smirk. Coined by Irish novelist and poet James Joyce in his 1922 novel Ulysses (see quotation below).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.