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smirring

smirring is the present participle and gerund of smirr.

Meaning of smirr

Verb

smirr (third-person singular simple present smirrs, present participle smirring, simple past and past participle smirred)

  1. (Scotland, transitive) To cover with fine rain.
    • Rain clouds smirred the horizon, but for now the grey mists above were content to drift on.2022, John MacKay, The Road Dance

Questions about smirring

What is smirring the present participle and gerund of?
Smirring is the present participle and gerund of smirr.

Words near smirring in the dictionary

  1. Smirnoff
  2. Smirnoffs
  3. Smirnov
  4. smirr
  5. smirred
  6. smirring
  7. smirrs
  8. smirry
  9. smirt
  10. smirted
  11. smirting

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Adapted from Wiktionary: smirring (page history and authors); smirr (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.

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