Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Elegant; fine; gay.
- Amorous.
- To look amorously.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To look amorously or wantonly; to smirk.
- adjective obsolete Amorous; wanton; gay; spruce.
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- adjective
Elegant ;fine ;gay . - adjective
Amorous ;wanton . - adjective
Spruce ;smart . - verb intransitive To
look amorously orwantonly ;smirk .
Etymologies
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From Middle English smiker, from Old English smicer, smicor ("beauteous, beautiful, elegant, fair, fine, neat, tasteful"), from Proto-Germanic *smikraz (“fine, elegant, delicate, tender”), from Proto-Indo-European *smēyg- (“small, delicate”), from Proto-Indo-European *smē-, *smey- (“to smear, stroke, wipe, rub”). Cognate with Middle High German smecker ("neat, elegant"), Ancient Greek σμικρός, μικρός (smikrós, mikrós, "small, short"), Lithuanian smeigti ("to lunge, thrust, jab"), Latin mīca ("crumb, morsel, bit").
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bilby commented on the word smicker
To look amorously or wantonly.
November 22, 2007