smicker

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/ˈsmɪkə(ɹ)/

adjective

Elegant; fine; attractive, beautiful.

OriginMiddle English smiker ← Old English smicer ← Proto-West Germanic *smikr →
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Meanings

adjectivesmicker (comparative more smicker, superlative most smicker)

comparative more smicker · superlative most smicker · alternative Scotland smikker

  1. archaicElegant; fine; attractive, beautiful.

    No, his deep-reaching spirit could not brook The fond addiction to such vanity; Regardful of his honour he forsook The smicker use of court-humanity.

    1606, John Ford, Fame's Memorial
  2. archaicAmorous; wanton.
  3. archaicHandsome; spruce; smart, dapper.

    A smicker boy, a lither swain, Heigh ho, a smicker swain, That his love was wanton fain, […]

    1590, Thomas Lodge, “Corydon’s Song”, in Rosalynde
verbsmicker (third-person singular simple present smickers, present participle smickering, simple past and past participle smickered)

present singular third person smickers · participle present smickering · participle past smickered · past smickered · alternative Scotland smikker

  1. archaicintransitiveTo look amorously or wantonly.

    […] Maskall, must you be smickering after wenches, while I am in calamity?

    1808, original 1668, John Dryden, Walter Scott, An Evening's Love
  2. ScotlandarchaicintransitiveTo look or smile seductively or amorously.
  3. ScotlandarchaicintransitiveTo laugh or smile in a sniggering or leering way; smirk.

    I gave him a questioning look and he hurled a pillow at me. “Who you a look pon^([sic]) so?” “Me baby father” He smickered.

    2014, Crystal Evans, Every Man Deserves A Good Jacket, page 116

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*smey-“to smear, stroke, wipe, rub”
  2. Proto-Germanic*smikraz“fine, elegant, delicate, tender”
  3. Proto-West Germanic*smikr
  4. Old Englishsmicer
  5. Middle Englishsmiker
  6. Englishsmicker

From Middle English smiker, from Old English smicer, smicor (“beauteous, beautiful, elegant, fair, fine, neat, tasteful”), from Proto-West Germanic *smikr, from Proto-Germanic *smikraz (“fine, elegant, delicate, tender”), of uncertain origin, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *smey- (“to smear, stroke, wipe, rub”). Cognate with Middle High German smecker (“neat, elegant”), Ancient Greek σμικρός (smikrós), μικρός (mikrós, “small, short”), Lithuanian smeigti (“to lunge, thrust, jab”), Latin mīca (“crumb, morsel, bit”). For the verb, compare Swedish smickra (“to flatter, coax, wheedle, butter up”), Danish smigre (“to flatter”).

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Rhymes & wordplay

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APA

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Chicago

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