smarming

Verb

smarm (third-person singular simple present smarms, present participle smarming, simple past and past participle smarmed)

1. (intransitive) To fawn, to be unctuous.
2. (transitive) To address in a fawning and unctuous manner.
   • "If you go to her and smarm her, it will be all right."
     "If I do what to her?" asked Mervyn, wondering what the operation of smarming might be.
     "Of course you don't know," laughed Aggie; "it is a school word. You explain what it means, Isabel."
     "To smarm," explained Isabel, "signifies to say 'yes...1874, Frank Usher, A strange love, volume 2, London: Tinsley Bros, page 53

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