schmieren

Meaning

1. (weak) to smear
2. (weak) to butter (bread)
3. (weak) to grease, oil, lubricate
4. (weak) to bribe
5. (colloquial,weak) to scribble, to scrawl
6. (weak) to deface (with writing or imagery)

Hyphenated as

schmie‧ren

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈʃmiːʁən/

Etymology

From Middle High German smirn, from older smirwen, from Old High German smirwen, from Proto-West Germanic *smirwijan, from Proto-Germanic *smirwijaną, derived from *smerwą, whence dated German Schmer (“fat”).
The loss of -w- is mostly a Central German development; compare fahl and falb, etc. Cognate with Dutch smeren, English smear.