smuggle

Significat (Anglès)

1. (intransitive, transitive) To import or export, illicitly or by stealth, without paying lawful customs charges or duties
2. (transitive) To bring in surreptitiously
3. (obsolete, transitive) To fondle or cuddle.
4. (slang) To thrash or be thrashed by a bear's claws, or to swipe at or be swiped at by a person's arms in a bearlike manner.

Sinònims

sneak

run

bootleg

cover up

entrain

hide

pocket

runner

🏃

slip

smuggling

tuck away

take secretly

be covert

illegal goods

bring secretly

owling

conceal

contraband

Traduccions

contrabandear

schmuggeln

smokkelen

schleusen

contrebande

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ˈsmʌɡəl/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Cognat amb Saterfriesisch: smuggelje

Cognat amb frisó occidental: smokkelje

Cognat amb alemany: schmuggeln

Cognat amb danès: smugle

Cognat amb suec: smuggla

Cognat amb islandès: smjúga

Cognat amb suec: smyga

Cognat amb alemany: schmiegen

Cognat amb anglès antic: smēogan

In summary

From earlier smuckle, either from Dutch smokkelen (“to smuggle”), a frequentative form of Middle Dutch smūken (“to act secretly, be sneaky”), from Old Dutch *smugan, or from Dutch Low Saxon or German Low German smuggeln; all are from Proto-West Germanic *smeugan (“to creep; slip through or into”).
cognates and related terms
Cognate with Saterland Frisian smuggelje (“to smuggle”), West Frisian smokkelje (“to smuggle”), German Low German smuggeln, smuckeln (“to move insidiously, smuggle”), German schmuggeln (“to smuggle”), Danish smugle (“to smuggle”), Swedish smuggla (“to smuggle”). Related also to Icelandic smjúga (“to creep, penetrate”), Swedish smyga (“to sneak, slip, crawl, lurk, steal”), German schmiegen (“to nestle, wrap, snuggle”), Old English smēogan, smūgan (“to creep, crawl, move gradually, penetrate”).