smicker

Significat (Anglès)

Adj

1. Elegant; fine; attractive, beautiful.
2. Amorous; wanton.
3. Handsome, spruce; smart, dapper.

Verb

1. To look amorously or wantonly.
2. To look or smile seductively or amorously.
3. To laugh or smile in a sniggering or leering way; smirk.

Sinònims

smile

😄

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ˈsmɪkə(ɹ)/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: smiker

Heretat de anglès antic: smicer

Cognat amb alt alemany mitjà: smecker

Cognat amb grec antic: σμικρός

Cognat amb lituà: smeigti

Cognat amb llatí: mīca

Cognat amb suec: smickra

Cognat amb danès: smigre

In summary

From Middle English smiker, from Old English smicer, smicor (“beauteous, beautiful, elegant, fair, fine, neat, tasteful”), from Proto-West Germanic *smikr, from Proto-Germanic *smikraz (“fine, elegant, delicate, tender”), from Proto-Indo-European *smēyg- (“small, delicate”), from Proto-Indo-European *smē-, *smey- (“to smear, stroke, wipe, rub”). Cognate with Middle High German smecker (“neat, elegant”), Ancient Greek σμικρός (smikrós), μικρός (mikrós, “small, short”), Lithuanian smeigti (“to lunge, thrust, jab”), Latin mīca (“crumb, morsel, bit”).
For the verb, compare Swedish smickra (“to flatter, coax, wheedle, butter up”), Danish smigre (“to flatter”).