smugging
smugging is the present participle and gerund of smug.
Meaning of smug
Verb
smug (third-person singular simple present smugs, present participle smugging, simple past and past participle smugged)
- 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...
- 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.
- Hearing a sound of strife, a Christian in the Orient asked his Dragoman the cause of it.
- To seize; to confiscate.
- To hush up.
Noun
smugging (plural smuggings)
- Something seized or confiscated; a stolen item.
Forms of smugging
| plural | smuggings |
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Questions about smugging
- What does smugging mean?
- Smugging means something seized or confiscated; a stolen item.
- What is smugging the present participle and gerund of?
- Smugging is the present participle and gerund of smug.
- What part of speech is smugging?
- Smugging is a noun.
- What is the plural of smugging?
- The plural of smugging is smuggings.
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