smicker

Senso (Inglese)

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.

sinonimi

smile

😄

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/ˈsmɪkə(ɹ)/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: smiker

Ereditato da inglese antico: smicer

Affine tedesco medio alto: smecker

Affine greco antico: σμικρός

Affine lituano: smeigti

Affine latino: mīca

Affine svedese: smickra

Affine danese: 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”).