smuggle

Significado (Inglés)

  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.

Conceptos

pasar de contrabando

hacer el contrabando

ejercer el contrabando

Traducciones

κάνω λαθρεμπόριο

passer en contrebande

faire de la contrebande

λαθραία

kaçakçılık yapmak

εισάγω λαθρέως

fer de contraban

هَرَّبَ

Frecuencia

C2
Pronunciado como (IPA)
/ˈsmʌɡəl/
Etimología (Inglés)

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”).

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