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smugged

smugged is the simple past and past participle of smug.

Meaning of smug

Verb

smug (third-person singular simple present smugs, present participle smugging, simple past and past participle smugged)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To make smug, or spruce.
    • Thus said, he smug'd his beard, and stroked up fair.1612, Michael Drayton, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [John Selden], editor, Poly-Olbion. Or A Chorographicall Description of Tracts, Riuers, Mountaines, Forests, and Other Parts of this Renowned...
  2. (intransitive) to adopt an offensively self-complacent expression.
    • Hearing a sound of strife, a Christian in the Orient asked his Dragoman the cause of it.
      "The Buddhists are cutting Mohammedan throats," the Dragoman replied, with oriental composure.
      "I did not know," remarked the Christian, with scientific interest, "that that would make so much noise."
      "The...1899 Ambrose Bierce: Fantastic Fables.
  3. (obsolete, slang, transitive) To seize; to confiscate.
  4. (obsolete, slang, transitive) To hush up.

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Questions about smugged

What is smugged the simple past and past participle of?
Smugged is the simple past and past participle of smug.

Words near smugged in the dictionary

  1. smudgings
  2. smudgy
  3. smug
  4. smugfest
  5. smugfests
  6. smugged
  7. smugger
  8. smuggeries
  9. smuggery
  10. smuggest
  11. smugging

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