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smirting

smirting is the present participle and gerund of smirt.

Meaning of smirt

Verb

smirt (third-person singular simple present smirts, present participle smirting, simple past and past participle smirted)

  1. (Ireland, UK, intransitive) To chat up or flirt with (someone) while smoking outside a pub.
    • Smirting - a cross between smoking and flirting - is already a huge hit in Dublin where the ban has been in place for two years2006 March 25, “BURNING PASSION IN CIGGIE SHELTERS”, in The Scottish Daily Record

Questions about smirting

What is smirting the present participle and gerund of?
Smirting is the present participle and gerund of smirt.

Words near smirting in the dictionary

  1. smirring
  2. smirrs
  3. smirry
  4. smirt
  5. smirted
  6. smirting
  7. smirts
  8. SMIs
  9. Smisby
  10. smish
  11. smished

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Adapted from Wiktionary: smirting (page history and authors); smirt (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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