Word.ws English Dictionary

smirker

smirker noun: one who smirks.

Noun

smirker (plural smirkers)

  1. One who smirks.
    • He is returning to the staircase {...} when he re-meets the smirking young officer, who is on his way back down. This time the smirker has decided to be someone else entirely: he is bashful. Red-cheeked.2024, Roz Dineen, Briefly Very Beautiful, Bloomsbury, page 60

Forms of smirker

pluralsmirkers

Origin of smirker

From smirk + -er.

Questions about smirker

What does smirker mean?
Smirker means one who smirks.
What part of speech is smirker?
Smirker is a noun.
What is the plural of smirker?
The plural of smirker is smirkers.

Words near smirker in the dictionary

  1. smirchless
  2. smirchy
  3. smirk
  4. Smirke
  5. smirked
  6. smirker
  7. smirkers
  8. smirkfest
  9. smirkfests
  10. smirkier
  11. smirkiest

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: smirker (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “smirker.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/smirker. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.