smicker

Significado (Inglés)

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.

Sinónimos

smile

😄

Pronúnciase como (IPA)

/ˈsmɪkə(ɹ)/

Etimoloxía (Inglés)

Herdado de Middle English: smiker

Herdado de Old English: smicer

Relativo a Middle High German: smecker

Relativo a grego antigo: σμικρός

Relativo a lituano: smeigti

Relativo a latín: mīca

Relativo a sueco: smickra

Relativo a dinamarqués: 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”).