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smicker

/ˈsmɪkə(ɹ)/

smicker adjective: elegant; fine; attractive, beautiful.

Adjective

smicker (comparative more smicker, superlative most smicker)

  1. (archaic) Elegant; 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. (archaic) Amorous; wanton.
  3. (archaic) Handsome; 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

Verb

smicker (third-person singular simple present smickers, present participle smickering, simple past and past participle smickered)

  1. (archaic, intransitive) To 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. (Scotland, archaic, intransitive) To look or smile seductively or amorously.
  3. (Scotland, archaic, intransitive) To 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

Forms of smicker

Adjective
comparativemore smicker
superlativemost smicker
alternative Scotlandsmikker
Verb
third-person singular presentsmickers
present participlesmickering
past participlesmickered
pastsmickered

Origin of smicker

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”).

Words formed from smicker

Words that rhyme with smicker

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Questions about smicker

What does smicker mean?
Smicker means elegant; fine; attractive, beautiful.
What part of speech is smicker?
Smicker can be an adjective or a verb.
How do you pronounce smicker?
Smicker is pronounced /ˈsmɪkə(ɹ)/.

Words near smicker in the dictionary

  1. smhing one's head
  2. SMI
  3. SMIC
  4. Smich
  5. smick
  6. smicker
  7. smickered
  8. smickering
  9. smickers
  10. smicket
  11. smickets

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