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单词 smart
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smartn.1

Brit. /smɑːt/, U.S. /smɑrt/
Forms: early Middle English smeorte (south-western), early Middle English smierte (south-east midlands), early Middle English smirte (south-west midlands), Middle English smertte, Middle English–1500s smert, Middle English–1500s smerte, late Middle English–1500s smarte, late Middle English– smart; Scottish pre-1700 smairt, pre-1700 smairte, pre-1700 smarte, pre-1700 smartt, pre-1700 1700s– smart, pre-1700 1800s smert.
Origin: Probably a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: English *smiertu.
Etymology: Probably (as implied by the early Middle English forms smirte and smierte: see note below) the reflex of an unattested Old English *smiertu, showing a feminine (originally īn- stem) derivative < the same base as smart adj. Compare (with different ablaut grade: compare smart v.1) West Frisian smert, smerte, Middle Dutch smerte, smarte (Dutch smart), Middle Low German smerte, smērte, smarte, Old High German smerza (Middle High German smerze, German Schmerz), and also ( < Middle Low German smerte or its later reflex) Swedish smärta, Danish smerte.The early Middle English forms smirte and smierte suggest that their unattested Old English antecedent showed i-mutation. The Old English word was perhaps an abstract formation from the (o -grade) base of smart adj. of the same derivational pattern as ieldu eld n.2 (from eald old adj.); the expected forms (showing breaking and subsequent i-mutation) would be early West Saxon *smiertu , Anglian *smertu . However, the rare early Middle English form smeorte appears to show the reflex of Old English *smeort- , so it remains possible that the word instead derives from the (e -grade) base of (the present stem of) smart v.1, which (after i-mutation) would yield Mercian *smeort- (beside West Saxon *smiert- , Northumbrian *smiort- ). (Although this derivation would allow the Old English word to share the same ablaut grade of the base as its continental Germanic cognates, none of them shows any evidence of the i or j suffix required for i-mutation.) Furthermore, it is also entirely possible that the form smeorte may simply show later analogical influence of the (unmutated) present stem of the verb; similar influence of forms of smart v.1 is probably also seen in the adjective (see discussion of forms of smart adj.).
1.
a. Sharp, often intense, physical pain, esp. such as is caused by an external agency (a blow, sting, etc.) or by a wound; (also) an instance of this.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > types of pain > [noun] > smarting or stinging
stingc900
smartingOE
smarta1225
stanginga1300
stinging1398
mordicationa1413
stang1513
urtication1655
smartness1682
verberation1688
mordicancy1693
a1225 (?c1175) Poema Morale (Lamb.) 114 in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 167 (MED) Wa se seið þet he bo hal him solf wat best his smirte [a1200 Trin. Cambr. smierte, a1225 Egerton smeorte, ?c1250 Egerton smerte].
c1330 (?c1300) Bevis of Hampton (Auch.) l. 4193 (MED) For smertte Yuor in þat stounde Fel a knes vnto þe grounde.
c1390 Castle of Love (Vernon) (1967) l. 1155 (MED) For vre woke þouȝtes he þolede smerte.
1493 Chastysing Goddes Chyldern (de Worde) v. sig. Avi/1 It felt noo smerte sharply tyll the rodde came.
a1500 (a1450) Generides (Trin. Cambr.) l. 6242 For eny wo or smerte..I wist hym neuer on kynde.
a1530 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfeccyon (1531) iii. f. CCiiiiv Yf he had pretended to suffre payne, & had feled no smarte.
1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie ii. vi. 36 She procureth present death wythout any smart.
1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper i. 46 He..inflicted both corporall smart and pecuniary mulcts upon them.
1681 R. Baxter Apol. Nonconformists Ministry 58 We knew it by our smarts, being sure to be whipt.
1717 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad III. xi. 574 Raging with intolerable Smart, He writhes his Body.
1792 W. Cowper in Yearly Bill Mortality Parish All-Saints (Northampton) 1791–2 (single sheet) Strange world—that costs it so much Smart.
1817 S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. II. xxviv. 293 There is a dull underpain that survives the smart which it had aggravated.
1870 W. C. Bryant tr. Homer Iliad I. xi. 374 Patroclus..applied a root Of bitter flavor to assuage the smart.
1903 ‘M. Harland’ Compl. Cook Bk. 13 Ammonia, applied instantly, neutralizes the venom and eases the smart.
1964 E. Waugh Little Learning ix. 230 Before I reached the point of no return, the Shropshire Lad was disturbed by a smart on the shoulder.
2012 L. Robinson Unclaimed Bride iii. 49 Ignoring the smart in her palm, she grabbed a towel before attempting to lift the pot this time.
b. With of (the cause of the pain). Also in figurative contexts.
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1477 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Hist. Jason (1913) 184 Whan Iason sawe his hors dede & that he felt the smarte of the sore in his hede.
a1530 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfeccyon (1531) iii. f. CCiiiiv He suffred the sharpnes & smart of payne, ye suche as neuer was suffred.
1596 Bp. W. Barlow tr. L. Lavater Three Christian Serm. iii. 142 Euen the Prophets..haue felt the smart of hunger.
a1604 M. Hanmer Chron. Ireland 32 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) Ireland..felt little smart of the Romane sword.
1668 J. Denham Poems 115 Ah cruel Love!.. Again she feels the smart Of a fresh wound from his tyrannick Dart.
1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. i. i. 16 When I felt the smart of their Arrows upon my Face.
1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure II. 159 The smart of the lashes was now converted into such a prickly heat, such fiery tinglings, as made me sigh.
1830 Olio 4 18/2 But the smart of a wound is felt no longer than while it lasts, and I soon forgot this mutilation.
1885 R. F. Burton tr. Arabian Nights' Entertainm. I. xxix. 296 For the smart of the stick I confessed, ‘It was I who stole it.’
1922 Boys' Life Feb. 14/3 The smart of the arrows annoys him. He pulls the one in his foreleg and throws it savagely in the air.
1969 Life 24 Oct. 37/3 There should be more than a touch of remorse to add to the smart of the self-inflicted wounds.
2007 A. Browning Millionaire's Marriage Revenge 26 The first shock was passing and pent-up emotion rose to choke her throat and bring the smart of tears to her eyes.
c. Degree of smarting or painfulness. Obsolete.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > types of pain > [noun] > smarting or stinging > degree of smarting
smart1888
1888 ‘Bernard’ From World to Cloister v. 114 The discipline,..at its highest possible smart, never equalled..the sting of such a caning.
2.
a. Mental pain or suffering; grief, sorrow, affliction; (sometimes) suffering of the nature of punishment or retribution. Also: an instance of this, a pang.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > [noun]
sorec888
teeneOE
sorrowOE
workOE
wrakeOE
careOE
gramec1000
harmOE
howc1000
trayOE
woweOE
angec1175
derfnessc1175
sytec1175
unwinc1175
wosithc1200
ail?c1225
barrat?c1225
derf?c1225
grief?c1225
misease?c1225
misliking?c1225
ofthinkingc1225
passion?c1225
troublec1230
pinec1275
distress1297
grievancea1300
penancea1300
cumbermentc1300
languorc1300
cumbering1303
were1303
angera1325
strifea1325
sweama1325
woea1325
painc1330
tribulationc1330
illa1340
threst1340
constraintc1374
troublenessc1380
afflictiona1382
bruisinga1382
miseasetya1382
pressurec1384
exercisec1386
miscomfortc1390
mislikea1400
smarta1400
thronga1400
balec1400
painfulnessc1400
troublancec1400
smartness?c1425
painliness1435
perplexity?a1439
penalty?1462
calamity1490
penality1496
cumber?a1513
sussy1513
tribule1513
afflict?1529
vexation of spirit1535
troublesomeness1561
hoe1567
grievedness1571
tribulance1575
languishment1576
thrall1578
tine1590
languorment1593
aggrievedness1594
obturbation1623
afflictedness1646
erumny1657
pathos1684
shock1705
dree1791
vex1815
wrungnessa1875
dukkha1886
thinkache1892
sufferation1976
the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > [noun]
rueeOE
teeneOE
sorrowOE
gramec1000
sytec1175
ruthc1225
dolea1240
balec1275
sighinga1300
dolour13..
ermingc1300
heartbreakc1330
discomfortc1350
griefa1375
tristourc1380
desolation1382
sichinga1387
tristesse1390
compassiona1400
rueinga1400
smarta1400
displeasure14..
gremec1400
heavity14..
dillc1420
notea1425
discomforturec1450
dolefulnessc1450
wandremec1450
regratec1485
doleance1490
trista1510
mispleasance1532
pathologiesa1586
balefulness1590
drearing1591
distressedness1592
woenessa1600
desertion1694
ruesomeness1881
schmerz1887
a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne (Harl.) l. 3964 Ȝyf þou..felyst weyl yn þy herte Of a lytyl sorow or smerte.
c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Canon's Yeoman's Tale (Ellesmere) (1875) l. 712 And yet for al my smert and al my grief For al my sorwe, labour, and meschief I koude neuere leue it in no wise.
a1450 Generides (Pierpont Morgan) (1865) l. 1632 To tel you hou I caght this smert, And al myn evel hou it began.
?1533 G. Du Wes Introductorie for to lerne Frenche sig. Ei A man doutfull..is sone conuerted and tourned in smerte.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. i. sig. B2v Ne let vaine feares procure your needlesse smart, Where cause is none.
1647 A. Cowley Love's Visibility in Mistress v The very Eye betrays our inward smart.
1679 J. Bunyan Fear of God 102 Sorrow is the effect of smart, and smart the effect of faith.
1715 R. Nelson Addr. Persons of Quality 24 The Anguish and Smart that flows from Your Sins chain you to the Oar.
1766 T. Gray Let. 23 Sept. (1971) III. 936 Time..will cure the smart, & in some hearts soon blot out all the traces of sorrow.
1809 H. More Cœlebs in Search of Wife (ed. 2) II. xliv. 120 Examine your own heart;..it will be a salutary smart.
1872 J. S. Blackie Lays of Highlands 3 I love the oaks of Derry, And to leave them gives me smart.
1919 W. B. Yeats Wild Swans at Coole (new ed.) 5 There is salt to lengthen out the smart In the affections of our heart.
1963 Huntington Libr. Q. 26 310 In the reasonable voice of Colin he seeks to heal over the smarts and gouges he may have inflicted.
2005 K. Grenville Secret River iv. 217 The other smart, the one somewhere in his heart, was soon soothed by the feel of his wife's body in his arms, her breath in his ear.
b. With of (the cause of the suffering).
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a1450 (c1412) T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum (Harl. 4866) (1897) l. 106 (MED) Þe smert of þoght, I..knowe..His frosty swoot & fyry hote feruence.
a1500 Lancelot of Laik (1870) 1051 So prikith hyme the smart Of hevynes, that stood vnto his hart.
a1591 H. Smith 6 Serm. (1592) 44 He came..when man had sinned, that he might feele the smart of sinne.
1631 W. Gouge Gods Three Arrowes iii. §58. 298 No marvell then that they..be made sensibly to feele the smart of their folly.
1702 Eng. Theophrastus 141 All parties blame persecution when they feel the smart on't.
1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. I. i. 22 Some were sent to prison for hasty words, to which the smart of injury excited them.
1874 Pop. Sci. Monthly Jan. 321 We wonder to how many persons it is still a necessity, under the smart of a sudden disappointment, to..relieve the pressure of emotion by a few energetic expletives?
1916 J. Joyce Portrait of Artist v. 221 He felt with a smart of dejection that the man to whom he was speaking was a countryman of Ben Jonson.
1990 S. Winston Summer Conf. 69 A desire to be printed, to see a byline, outweighed in some degree the disappointment, the smart of having no voice in the sale as any huckster might.
2011 C. J. Singley Adopting Amer. ii. 44 No doubt William felt the smart of Deborah's rejection.
c. In plural. Loss, damage; adversity. Obsolete.
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the world > action or operation > adversity > [noun] > circumstance or occurrence
plightc1300
woea1325
fanda1400
afflictionc1429
assayc1430
brier?1504
trouble?1521
distress1549
smarts1552
say?1572
infliction1590
disaccommodation1645
trial1754
ordeal1807
time1809
kill-cow1825
Via Crucis1844
Via Dolorosa1844
racket1877
pisser1957
1552 T. Barnabe Let. 1 Oct. in J. Strype Ann. Reformation (1824) VI. 486 Yf chance should fal..that a ship should be lost, the halls might easily bear the smarts therof.
1591 H. Savile tr. Tacitus Ende of Nero: Fower Bks. Hist. ii. 90 Neither did shee..participate any thing els of hir sonnes estate, saue onely the smarts of hir house when it fell.
3. Short for smart money n.1; (also) a sum of this. Now historical and rare.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > ransom > [noun] > payment for discharge of recruit
ticketa1599
smart money1760
smart1802
1802 C. James New Mil. Dict. Smarts, the different sums which are received by recruiting parties under the head of Smart money, are frequently so called.
1826 W. N. Glascock Naval Sketch-bk. II. 28 Get hurt in their service—lose a finger or fin by the chime of a cask in the hold—or fall from aloft, and fracture your pate—then see where's your pension or ‘smart’.
1887 D. Donaldson Jamieson's Sc. Dict. Suppl. 321/1 He listed.., but paid the smert and wan hame.
a1902 A. B. Davidson Waiting upon God (1904) xi. 266 We are fond of saying He paid our debts; He was our surety, our cautioner; He paid the smart of our arrears and defalcations.
1941 J. A. Williamson Ocean in Eng. Hist. iv. 105 James I allowed the interloper Sir Edward Michelborne to sail to the East and commit piracies for which the Company paid the smart.

Compounds

smartgrass n. U.S. = smartweed n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Polygonaceae (dock and allies) > [noun] > bistort and allies
adderwortOE
arsesmarta1300
persicarya1400
persicaria?a1450
polygonya1500
buckwheat1548
polygonum1562
passions1568
bistort1578
oysterloit1578
goat's wheat1597
peachwort1597
plumbago1597
redshank1597
snake-weed1597
dragonwort1656
smartweed1787
patience dock1796
red-legs1820
passion dock1828
smartgrass1837
mud knotweed1845
jointweed1866
tear-thumb1866
pinch-weed1883
knotweed1884
sachaline1901
1837 Thomsonian Recorder 5 174/1 Smart grass will render fresh meat sweet even after it has commenced decomposition.
1901 Outing Dec. 344 They..set about the improvement of duck shooting by sowing wild rice and smart grass.
1997 Kerrville (Texas) Daily Times 30 Jan. 8 a/4 During the drought, a lot of millet and smartgrass grew around the big reservoirs.
smart ticket n. Nautical (now historical) a certificate signed by a ship's surgeon entitling a sailor to a payment or pension in compensation for a disability or injury suffered while in service; cf. smart money n.1 1a.
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society > armed hostility > military organization > [noun] > specific certificates
pass1617
beating-order1721
smart ticket1734
papers1872
society > authority > lack of subjection > permission > [noun] > formal or authoritative permission > a formal or authoritative permission
safe conduct?1404
licence1433
royalty1633
fiat1647
licent1676
liceat1686
privilege1715
sanction1720
smart ticket1734
post warrant1812
sanctionment1818
wine-warrant1857
carnet1926
1734 Regulations H.M. Service at Sea (ed. 2) iii. 132 He is to provide himself, before his going on board, with..a sufficient Number of Smart Tickets from the Office of the Clerk of the Acts.
1801 Ld. Nelson Let. 11 Oct. in Dispatches & Lett. (1845) IV. 504 I will send to the Gannet for Smart Tickets.
1881 Army & Navy Mag. Oct. 1155 The surgeon..was under the displeasure of the mutineers, because he had refused smart tickets to some of them that he thought were not entitled to them.
1991 P. O'Brian Nutmeg of Consol. (1993) iv. 101 He had..his proper discharge, smart-ticket and a commendation from his captain.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

smartn.2

Brit. /smɑːt/, U.S. /smɑrt/
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: smart adj.
Etymology: < smart adj.
1. A person who affects smartness in dress, manners, or speech. Frequently somewhat derogatory. Now rare.Common in 18th cent.
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the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [noun] > smart person
a man of (the first) feather1592
pink1602
smart1709
flasher1755
swell1786
dasher1807
smarty1847
city slicker1914
Roy1960
1709 J. Addison Tatler No. 157. ⁋16 Mr. Bickerstaff..summons all his Disciples, whether..Toasts, Smarts,..Musicians or Scrapers, to make their Appearance at the Playhouse.
1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 442. ⁋3 All Beaux, Rakes, Smarts,..and all Sorts of Wits.
1726 N. Amhurst Terræ-filius (ed. 2) II. xlvi. 93 I have given great offence to a large body of fine gentlemen there, call'd Smarts.
1753 Scots Mag. Oct. 491/2 I put on a sword, supped every night at a tavern,..and was universally confessed to be improved into a Smart.
1821 W. Scott Pirate II. i. 15 The word passed through among the young Templars, and the wits, and the smarts.
1859 J. R. Green Oxf. during Last Cent. ii. iii. 55/2 The smart of the day [sc. in the 18th cent.] rises late in an age of early risers.
1987 Daily Tel. 28 Oct. 17 Exit the Sloanes, enter the Smarts... Always to be perfectly dressed, shiningly healthy and to have the latest kind of designer water in all the guest bedrooms.
2. With the and plural agreement. Those who are neat, clever, witty, etc.; smart people or things as a class (in various senses of smart adj. II.).
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > knowledge, what is known > [noun] > knowledgeable persons
smart1865
1831 Examiner 23 Jan. 54/2 For the admirers of the smart, and the modern, and the whimsical, there are the Pavilion and new buildings at Brighton.
1865 Manch. Guardian 20 Sept. 3/5 In this race, the smart and the strong go ahead; the timid or the dull go to the wall.
1892 Rev. of Reviews June 587/2 This latter class [sc. talented people] must have the further..talent for..amusing the rich, the smart, and the pretty.
1928 Rotarian Apr. 11/1 We are living in a somewhat jazzy age. The smart and the flippant seem very much to the front.
1957 T. Gunn Sense of Movement 22 The smart are dead waist-down.
2004 Utne Reader Aug. 90/1 The Blogosphere—a land where the smart get smarter, the connected get even more connected, and the losers go home.
3. Smartness in speech or writing, esp. of a forced or artificial nature. Obsolete.
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the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > wit, wittiness > [noun] > brilliancy of wit or language > in conversation, writing
wit1542
salt1574
smartness1643
esprita1797
smart1845
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > inelegance > [adjective] > forced
high-strained1565
constrained1571
forced1583
overstrained1599
strained1609
epitonic1879
smart1899
1845 Ld. Tennyson Let. Oct. (1982) I. 249 I said something that offended him and..he..told me that I was ‘affecting the smart’.
1899 Westm. Gaz. 25 Oct. 3/2 This needless introduction of the presumably ‘smart’ would ruin the art of any novel.
4. colloquial.
a. Originally and chiefly North American.
(a) In plural. Intelligence, esp. natural intelligence; cleverness, acumen, nous; wits. Chiefly with the.Also with modifying word (see also book smarts n. at book n. Compounds 3,street smarts n. at street n. and adj. Compounds 4).
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the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > sharpness, shrewdness, insight > [noun]
sharpnessc897
yepshipc1000
insightc1175
yepleȝȝcc1175
yephedea1250
wit1297
fellnessa1382
policyc1440
discerningc1450
policec1450
inspectiona1527
perceivance1534
aptitude1548
sagacity1548
acuity?1549
nimbleness1561
acumen1579
seeing eye1579
esprit1591
acuteness1601
depth1605
penetration1605
knowingness1611
shrewdnessa1616
piercingnessa1628
discernment1646
sharpwittedness1647
nasuteness1660
arguteness1662
sagaciousness1678
perceptivity1700
keenness1707
cuteness1768
intuition1780
recollectedness1796
long-headedness1818
perceptiveness1823
kokum1848
incision1862
incisiveness1865
penetrativeness1873
flair1881
hard-boiledness1912
smart1964
spikiness1977
sus1979
1940 Amer. Speech 15 355 Pegler..is also sure ‘we are suffering from a very bad case of the Smarts’, which means in his language that there is too much education loose in the world today.]
1964 N. Amer. Rev. Autumn 67/1 He is pretty high in the smarts dept., since he is a bonafide doctor with a degree and all that.
1968 Ebony Mar. 16 (advt.) If you're good, we'll take you on. In management. Where you can use all the smarts you picked up in college.
1972 H. Kemelman Monday Rabbi took Off xlv. 263 The whole story is a little weak... I mean, this kid of yours has the normal amount of smarts.
1981 Guardian Weekly 26 July 15/4 They complain..that the soldiers have neither the smarts nor the education to work the complicated weapons of modern warfare.
1990 Vogue Sept. 96/2 British dance acts..display the dance-floor smarts of the UK's new style scientists.
2008 S. Toltz Fraction of Whole v. 556 I think I'll leave this manuscript here..and maybe one day it'll be found and someone will have the smarts to publish it posthumously.
(b) In singular in same sense.
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1967 D. Hamma Motorcycle Mommas 22 Them bastards didn't have no smart at all.
1973 R. O'N. Bristow Faraway Drummer iv. 54 If you got the smart to get in bed with the queen in the first place, you can't be all thick.
1977 N.Y. Times 9 Oct. 26 Mrs. Maynard said that Mr. Miller..‘doesn't have enough smart to run a union as big as the United Mine Workers’.
1990 E. Goldrick Love is in Cards vi. 117 Nobody else have the smart to plant the root this year.
b. In plural. Programming which makes a computer capable of some independent action; the ability of a device or other machine to vary its behaviour in response to differing requirements, varying situations, or past events. Also: processing power. Cf. smart adj. 10b.
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1970 A. B. Veaner in Minutes 75th Meeting Assoc. Res. Libr. 18 The type of machine one can have all to oneself will probably be a stripped down model with a limited repertoire of software ‘smarts’, and accommodating few peripheral devices.
1989 Economist 2 Dec. (Surv. Japanese Technol.) 4/2 [Products] have to be packed with ‘technological smarts’—in short, be able to make decisions and remember things, optimise their own performance, even anticipate customer's whims.
2002 EnRoute Aug. 29/1 Link the smarts of millions of desktop computers together via the Internet, and you end up with the mother of all supercomputers.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

smartadj.

Brit. /smɑːt/, U.S. /smɑrt/
Forms: Old English–early Middle English smeart, early Middle English smært (south-west midlands), early Middle English smeort (south-western and south-west midlands), early Middle English smort (west midlands), Middle English smartt, Middle English smertt, Middle English smyrte, Middle English–1500s smerte, Middle English–1500s (1800s– regional) smert, Middle English–1600s smarte, Middle English– smart, late Middle English smrt (transmission error), late Middle English suert (transmission error), 1900s– smaart (English regional); Scottish pre-1700 smarte, pre-1700 1700s– smart, pre-1700 1900s– smert.
Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.
Etymology: < an ablaut variant (o -grade) of the same West Germanic base as smart v.1Some of the Middle English forms probably result from association with smart v.1 and smart n.1 The expected reflex of Old English smeart is Middle English smart. The forms smeort, smort perhaps show influence of the present stem of smart v.1, which reflects an original e -grade base (compare discussion of the variant smeorte at smart n.1). The rare form smyrte suggests an antecedent with i-mutation; compare discussion of forms at smart n.1 (and compare also forms of smart v.1). Forms such as smert could ultimately reflect either the o -grade of the base (with i-mutation) or the e -grade; by early modern English the reflex of smert- has usually merged with the reflex of smart- (compare forms of smart n.1 and smart v.1 and discussion at those entries). Use of the word as a male personal name is apparently recorded for 1066 in the form Smert in Domesday Bk. (1086); also attested early as a surname, e.g. Lifwinus Smart (c1180), Hugone Smart (1209), and as a surname element, e.g. Christiana Smartknave (1279). These uses imply earlier currency of the use of the word with reference to a person (compare senses 8b, 9).
I. Painful, uncomfortable; sharp, severe, intense.
1.
a. Of an instrument, such as a rod, whip, etc.: inflicting or causing pain; biting, stinging; (of a weapon) sharp and cutting. Now rare and chiefly in historical context.
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > violent action or operation > severity > [adjective]
heavyc825
grimc900
strongeOE
hardeOE
drearyOE
eileOE
sweerOE
deara1000
bitterOE
tartc1000
smartOE
unridec1175
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heinous?1541
urgent?1542
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society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > instrument or place of corporal punishment > [adjective] > inflicting pain (of instrument)
smartOE
sharpa1400
OE Homily: Sermo ad Populum Dominicis Diebus (Lamb. 489) in A. S. Napier Wulfstan (1883) 295 Ic wylle swingan eow mid þam smeartestum swipum.
a1225 (?OE) MS Vesp. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 243 Þu ahst to habben ehte wepnecin, þa beoð sceold, helm and brenie, swrd and spere, stede and twei sporen, and ane smearte ȝerd.
?1316 Short Metrical Chron. (Royal) l. 929 in J. Ritson Anc. Eng. Metrical Romanceës (1802) II. 309 (MED) He was yschote With an arewe kene ant smert.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 15785 Wit maces and wit neues smert vn-rekenli on him ran.
1447 O. Bokenham Lives of Saints (Arun.) (1938) l. 1593 Whan he on þe [MS ye] crosce..Heng nakyd, fastnyd wyth nayles smerte.
c1480 (a1400) St. Vincent l. 157 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 263 In a frame [he] stent hyme..with smert cordis sa faste til senonis ore hyd ma leste.
?1567 M. Parker Whole Psalter lv. 159 Hys wordes were felt, yet were sharpe dartes and smart.
1594 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 iii. ii. 329 Their softest tuch as smart as lyzards stings.
1604 J. Godskall Arke of Noah sig. A3 We at diuers times haue felt this rod, and also at this present time in Flanders they doo taste of this smart-whip.
1673 J. Flavell Fountain of Life xvi. 198 Sometimes he spares their outward, and afflicts their inner man, which is a much smarter rod.
?1705 E. Hickeringill Surv. Earth 44 A Whip and Lash is of great and necessary use to slash..Offenders that debauch this vile Earth; and the smarter the better.
1796 Augusta Fitzherbert II. xxx. 65 I met one of them..dressed in a riding habit, and flourishing in her hand a smart whip, with a spur at the end.
1813 Dr. Marshall in Addr. Relative to Election in Durham 37/2 The Darlington colt, Who trainers inform me is subject to bolt: And this when he feels the smart whip on his flank.
1899 Cornish Mag. 2 394/2 Mr. Lethbridge is both master and huntsman, and is assisted by a smart whip.
1976 E. S. Morgan Meaning of Independence iii. 63 A navy would be a smart rod, for, as James Madison had earlier suggested to him, ‘A single frigate under the orders of Congress could make it the interest of any one of the Atlantic States to pay its quota.’
b. Of land: rugged; (of an object) sharp or rough to the touch. Cf. sharp adj. 2. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > land > ground > [adjective] > rough
sharpc893
roughOE
foec1400
rupt?a1425
aspera1492
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smarta1525
ruggeda1533
crabbed1579
broken1599
tutty-nosed1681
ruggish1838
a1525 Eng. Conquest Ireland (Trin. Dublin) (1896) 128 (MED) For hyt was smert lond, woddy, & of Marche, & ferr.
c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy (2002) f. 16v Þis stone..Be it smethe owþer smert smaragden hit hat.
c. Of an instrument of pain: severe or hard on (also upon) one. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > strictness > [adjective] > severe or stern > severe upon
smart1549
side1825
to be rough on1868
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > harshness or severity > [adjective] > severe upon
smart1549
side1825
1549 T. Sternhold Al Such Psalmes of Dauid xxxii. sig. Diiii Thy hande on me, So [grievous was] and smerte.
1648 Bp. J. Hall Breathings Devout Soul x. 14 When thy hand hath been smart and heavy upon me.
1679 J. Bunyan Fear of God 81 When the rod was most smart upon them, they made great conscience of giving way to their first fears wherewith they were made afraid by the Spirit.
2. Of a blow, stroke, etc.: sufficiently hard or severe to cause pain; sharp, stinging; (in later use sometimes without implication of pain being caused) delivered quickly and sharply (cf. sense 8a). Also in figurative contexts.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > [adjective] > causing pain > of a blow or weapon
smarta1200
sorea1300
sucky1934
a1200 (?OE) MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 207 Mannes lichame ihalsneð iwis þenne me hine pined mid hunger..and mid stiue wedes next þe liche and smerte smiten of smale longe ȝerden.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 10660 [They] uppen Colgrime smiten mid swiðe smærte [c1300 Otho smorte] biten.
c1330 (?c1300) Bevis of Hampton (Auch.) l. 2883 (MED) Beues þanne wiþ strokes smerte Smot þe dragoun to þe herte.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 25543 Iesu..Sufferd..Dintes sare and smert.
a1500 (?a1400) Sir Torrent of Portyngale (1887) l. 2472 (MED) Smert boffettes they yeldyd there.
1574 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Job (new ed.) cxlv. 747 When as wee feele so smart blowes, and the hand of God maketh vs to quake.
1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. i. 52 How smart a lash that speech doth giue my conscience. View more context for this quotation
1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. iii. 160 With a few smart strokes of a great Mall, or Hammer, you beat the one end of it.
1764 T. Reid Inq. Human Mind v. §6 Suppose him first to be pricked with a pin—this will, no doubt, give a smart sensation.
1789 J. Bonner Bee-master's Compan. xxiii. 219 With a knife loose the edges of the combs from the hive all around, and give the hive a smart knock on the floor.
1813 Sporting Mag. 42 68 Cooper planted a smart hit on his adversary's neck.
1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede II. iv. xxx. 293 When a man's got his limbs whole, he can bear a smart cut or two.
1921 S. Comstock Daughter of Helen Kent i. 4 Its passengers huddled indoors, cowering from the smart whips of the December air.
1939 F. D. Tredrey Pilot's Summer 28 If you bale out and land in water..a smart rap will release the whole lot and you can swim free.
1993 Dog World June 107/1 Food is held out to the dog, and as soon as he snaps or only merely sniffs at it he is given a smart blow.
3. Of an event, time, etc.: dreadful, dire; difficult; testing. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > quality of terribleness > [adjective]
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eyesfulOE
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monster-like1561
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direful1583
affrighting1592
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diral1606
tirable1607
frighting1619
scaring1641
affrighteninga1651
formidolous1656
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terrifical1677
atrocious1733
terrorful1789
orful1845
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terrorsome1890
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timorsome1894
like the wrath of God1936
a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 61 (MED) Vuele he us briseð gif he binimeð us ure agte..oðer þurh orf qualm, oðer þurh smerte gier.
c1330 Simonie (Auch.) (1991) l. 392 God..sen[t]e a derþe on eorþe and made hit ful smart.
a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne (Harl.) l. 8539 (MED) For shame he myȝt nat telle how smart Þe temptyng þat come to hys hert.
a1463 (c1440) S. Scrope tr. C. de Pisan Epist. of Othea (Pierpont Morgan) (1970) 109 Hector me must pronounce thi deeth smerte.
4. Of pain (physical or mental), sorrow, etc.: sharp, keen, painful, severe. Also of a wound or other cause of discomfort.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > [adjective] > causing pain
sorec897
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painfulc1400
sensible1502
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dolorific1634
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paining1891
the mind > emotion > suffering > mental anguish or torment > [adjective] > severe
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the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > types of pain > [adjective] > relating to agony or torment > causing agony or torment
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smartc1300
fellc1330
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rending?c1400
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tormenting1575
cruciable1578
raging1590
tormentuous1597
pungent1598
racking1598
acute1615
wrenching1618
excruciating1664
grinding1681
excruciate1773
discruciating1788
unendurable1801
of bare sufferance1823
perialgic1893
c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) l. 2055 And mikel sorwe in his herte For hise wundes, þat we[r] so smerte.
1372 in E. Wilson Descriptive Index Lyrics John of Grimestone's Preaching Bk. (1973) 33 (MED) Hand, heued, foot, herte Criȝet Crist for wondis smerte.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 58 Wyt chaunce of ded, or chaunce of hert, þat soft began has endyng smart.
c1450 ( G. Chaucer Bk. Duchess (Fairf. 16) (1871) l. 507 Hym thought hys sorwes were so smerte.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid v. xii. 63 The fadir Eneas, smyt with this smart cais.
1562 A. Brooke tr. M. Bandello Tragicall Hist. Romeus & Iuliet f. 50v And though with greater payne she cloked sorowes smart: Yet did her paled face disclose the passions of her hart.
1678 Lively Oracles iii. §5. 264 That long train of smart calamities which succeeded his sin.
1688 J. Bunyan Good News for Vilest of Men 75 The Gospel..threatneth them with the heaviest and smartest Judgments.
1740 Athenæum 24 Sept. 1887 The whey..gives me pretty smart colicks.
1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison I. 187 Sir Rowland took notice, that I must have had a smart illness for the time, by my alter'd countenance.
1826 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1971) VI. 648 Henry suffered a Relapse..with a smart attack of fever, oppression on the chest and dyspnoea.
1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 488 There may be high fever,..nausea, vomitings, smart diarrhœa and so on.
1907 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 25 Apr. 65/2 In patients suffering from gastric ulcer smart pain is produced at once.
1985 T. Valentine & C. Valentine Appl. Kinesiology (1987) ii. 16 A smart pain served as my morning alarm clock for nearly thirty years, arousing me promptly at six daily regardless of the firmness of my mattress.
5.
a. Esp. of a natural force or process: strong, vigorous, intense; bracing, keen. Cf. sharp adj. 4d, 4j.
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > [adjective] > of action: involving or requiring vigour > vigorous or intense in operation
strongeOE
smartc1300
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piercinga1400
perceantc1400
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forcible1555
emphatical1581
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nervous1616
strenuous1632
arrowy1650
intent1650
urging1658
sinewous1663
emphatic1689
drastic1808
needling1839
shrewd1842
gimlet1894
c1300 St. Patrick's Purgatory (Laud) l. 245 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 207 (MED) A smart wind..on heom bleuȝ wel faste, Þat heom þouȝte heo weren i-barnd.
a1425 (a1400) Prick of Conscience (Galba & Harl.) (1863) l. 3257 Þai er dungen..With smert stormes als of wynd and rayn.
c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) l. 1309 Quen it was smeten in small with þe smert waȝes.
c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy (2002) f. 146 Ffor the smorther & the smoke of þe smert loghys..All the Citie might se the sercle aboute.
a1682 Sir T. Browne Let. to Friend (1690) 6 Sepulchral Fires and smart Flames.
1692 J. Ray Misc. Disc. v. 91 A smart and continuing Rain.
1711 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 31 Jan. (1948) I. 178 We are here in as smart a frost for the time as I have seen.
1726 T. Smith Jrnl. (1849) 265 This has been a very smart, close winter.
1774 E. Long Hist. Jamaica II. xl. 240 Into these basons they let a smart stream of water, to loosen the earth.
1800 Med. Jrnl. 5 31 They..had a smart fever for three days, and then an eruption.
1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) III. 1055 The assistant must look to the oil, and bring it to a smart simmer.
1900 J. Slocum Sailing Alone around World (1901) xvii. 235 It was blowing a smart gale and was too rough for the sloop to be towed with safety.
1992 B. Unsworth Sacred Hunger xxxviii. 429 Sea breeze came in but soon overpowered by a smart tornado obliging us to furl all and come to anchor in 25 fathoms.
b. Of a substance (esp. alcoholic drink) or its taste: pungent, acrid; sharp, piquant; invigorating to the palate. Also in figurative contexts. Cf. sharp adj. 6a. Now rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > types or qualities of intoxicating liquor > [adjective] > brisk or sharp
smart1372
brisk1600
sprightly?1600
pert1705
1372 in E. Wilson Descriptive Index Lyrics John of Grimestone's Preaching Bk. (1973) 45 (MED) Iewes..Menkten eysyl with galle smerte, And bodin him drinken þo.
1567 G. Turberville tr. G. B. Spagnoli Eglogs iii. f. 20 Hee tels a wofull tale that tasteth smarte.
1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 33 Both in the keenest and smartest, as well as in the weakest and most watrish Vineger.
1684 J. Haines Epil. to Lacy's Sir Hercules Buffoon (single sheet) These new Wits Relish, small, smart, Bottle Beer.
1702 C. Beaumont J. Beaumont's Psyche (new ed.) ix. lxxxi. 128 A flood, to which..smart Gall is dropping Myrrh.
1710 T. Fuller Pharmacopœia Extemporanea 3 The smarter and staler [ale is], the more it openeth and detergeth.
1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World I. 241 It will eat best with some smart bottled beer.
1818 J. Keats Let. 29 June (1995) 110 We have now begun upon whisky,..very smart stuff it is.
1912 Farmers' Cycl. (1916) I. 332 The vegetable drugs—fenugreek, fennel, anise, gentian, ginger and pepper—were employed in sufficient quantities to produce an agreeable odor and smart taste.
1984 C. G. Hunter Wildflowers of Arkansas 68 The leaves of smartweeds have a sharp or ‘smart’ taste. The knotty stem-joints are a trademark of the genus.
c. Of a battle, attack, etc.: fierce, violent; esp. vigorous and quick. Cf. sharp adj. 4c.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > [adjective] > of action: involving or requiring vigour > carried out or proceeding with vigour
stiffc1250
busyc1275
greatc1275
sternc1275
smart?a1400
stark1489
thronga1525
vigorous1524
stout1582
intensive1605
spiritful?1611
warm1627
intense1645
mettlesome1645
spirited1670
mettled1682
sturdy1697
energetic1700
vivid1702
robustful1800
toughish1840
lively1844
full out1920
?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) ii. 21 (MED) Þe Danes stode þam ageyn with bataile fulle smerte.
a1450 (?a1300) Richard Coer de Lyon (Caius) (1810) l. 5389 Kyng Richard..Gaff the batayle hard and smerte, That no Paynym myght withsterte.
1672 tr. G. Gualdo Priorato Hist. Managem. Cardinal Mazarine II. ii. ii. 200 On the 14. of August, there happen'd a smart skirmish, in which the two Counts..and Turenne's Lieutenant-Collonel was slain.
1791 G. Morris in J. Sparks Life G. Morris (1832) II. 137 A good smart action would be useful rather than pernicious.
1846 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 II. ii. 51 A smart affair with the enemy took place.
1885 Manch. Examiner 21 Mar. 6/2 A smart passage at arms between his Grace and Lord Bramwell.
1921 W. Foster Early Trav. India 288 A Portuguese carrack was overtaken and destroyed, after a smart encounter in which the English commander was slain.
1985 P. R. Newman Atlas of Eng. Civil War 70 On 15 August the royalist cavalry won a smart action at Ribble Bridge, near Preston.
d. Of a sound: short and sharp; abrupt and loud.
ΚΠ
c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) l. 1183 (MED) To mouþe he sett his olyfaunt; He bloweþ smert and loude sounes.
1607 G. Markham Cavelarice v. 54 The noyse and smart sounde of the lash of his whippe.
1716 B. Church Entertaining Passages Philip's War i. 38 In the Evening they heard a smart firing at a distance from them.
1752 London Mag. Dec. 535/2 The electricity breaks off with a smart crack, and a spark of fire.
1829 Chapters Physical Sci. 463 It demonstrates its presence both by a sudden flash and a smart report.
1851 N. Hawthorne Twice-told Tales I. viii. 154 That smart, slapping sound, produced by an open hand upon tender flesh.
1913 T. Hardy Changed Man 200 The hoofs of his horse sending up a smart sound now that he had reached the hard road of the drive.
1991 N.Y. Mag. 25 Nov. 30/2 The smart crack of a bat and the roar of engines.
e. Of an incline (esp. a hill): (relatively) steep. Cf. sharp adj. 10d. Now rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > slope > [adjective] > steep > somewhat
smart1670
steepish1814
1670 S. Wilson Lassels's Voy. Italy (new ed.) i. 58 I went vp a smart hill called Mount Aurigo.
1794 N. Parry Jrnl. in Kentucky Hist. Soc. Reg. (1936) 34 385 I found the mouth wide enough to..walk in strait; and the bottom was dry; it being on the top of a smart hill.
1833 Jrnl. Steam Transport & Husb. Dec. 55/2 It has been making almost daily trips to Edgeware, upon which road there are two smart hills.
1855 Jrnl. Hort. Soc. 9 130 The great accumulation of heat, too, at the upper portion of the roof; how unnatural, how wasteful!.. Ten per cent of the fuel is wasted in this angle, especially in high houses with a smart incline.
1918 J. Clarke Japan at First Hand xvi. 237 It is a winding fairy-like walk up a smart incline to the foot of the falls.
6.
a. Of words, etc.: sharp, severe; cutting, acrimonious.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > vigour or force > [adjective] > mordant
smartc1330
unkeen?a1425
mordant1474
piquant1521
pugnant1537
quick1542
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pointed1617
pungent1619
toothed1628
aculeate1640
mordacious1648
aculeated1655
piperaceous1674
peppery1826
pointy1883
lashing1900
c1330 (?c1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) l. 1365 (MED) With þat ich word wel smert, Gij him smot vn-to þe hert.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 3034 Abraham..thoght þis wordes war to smert.
1550 J. Heywood Hundred Epigrammes xxxiv. sig. Biiiiv To whiche smart mocke, and wyly begylyng, He..saied [etc.].
1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre ii. xxiv. 74 He would often give a smart jest, which would make the place both blush and bleed where it lighted.
1675 tr. W. Camden Hist. Princess Elizabeth (rev. ed.) iii. 269 A Book which was written..against the Marriage in a smart and stinging Style.
1735 J. Swift Gulliver in Wks. III. 128 He seldom failed of a smart Word or two upon my Littleness.
1751 Affecting Narr. H.M.S. Wager 128 This smart Remonstrance touch'd the Lieutenant to the very Heart.
1825 Gentleman's Mag. 95 i. 397 ‘To start’ is to apply a smart word to an idle or forgetful person.
1884 C. H. D. Stocker Between Acts I. iv. 89 He..had come in it to-day without eliciting a single sneer or smart word from anybody.
1918 W. H. Hodgson Captain Gault ii. 48 I gave him a smart word or two before all the saloon-full; and I fancy they agreed with me.
1999 R. Maxwell Queen's Bastard 59 The midwife knew she could afford a smart word or two, for in this room it was she and she alone who stood between life and death for the Queen and her child.
b. Of a person: sharp in criticism or comment upon or with another. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > criticism > [adjective] > sharply
sharp?c1225
quipping1542
sharp-fanged1598
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spinousa1638
scalding1641
spinose1660
smart1665
acid1756
caustic1771
rapped-out1831
1665 J. Sergeant Let. from Author of Sure-footing 5 in Discov. Groundlesness & Insincerity Ld. Down's Dissuasive If you advance this Civil piece of Atheistry, you must pardon me if I be smart with you.
1669 J. Dryden Wild Gallant ii. ii. 15 You are very smart upon one another Gentlemen.
1692 J. Washington tr. J. Milton Def. People Eng. iii. 59 The Lawyer, whoever he be, that you are so smart upon, was not so much out of the way.
1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) 390 He fansied, he was very smart upon me; but as it generally happens with him, he lashes himself.
1713 C. Johnson Successful Pyrate i. i. 6 Bor. Spare thy Complements, and thy Chine, thou worthy Son of Musk and Civet—Tul. Ha! Tart as a Barberry; ever smart upon your Friends, but 'tis the Token of your Esteem.
7. Distinct, sharp, clearly outlined. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > shape > [adjective] > having a definite outline
smart1644
defineda1727
the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > visibility > [adjective] > clearly visible > sharp or distinct
graphical1626
smart1644
sharp1675
vivid1690
briska1727
unblurred1809
vive1825
clear1835
shadeless1835
film-free1880
eidetic1924
crisp1937
deblurred1968
1644 K. Digby Two Treat. i. xxxi. 271 [A] blacke carpet to limit both endes of it (which serueth to make the colours the smarter).
1753 W. Hogarth Anal. Beauty xiii. 182 These objects which..come forwardest to the view, must have large, strong, and smart oppositions.
a1806 J. Barry in R. N. Wornum Lect. on Painting (1848) 187 The cast and manner of their several foldings, some more smart and frequently interrupted, others more flowing.
1870 G. M. Hopkins Jrnls. & Papers (1959) 201 The day had been very bright and clear, distances smart.
II. Senses relating to qualities of speed, intelligence, neatness, and similar qualities.
8.
a. Of an action, movement, etc.: quickly or deftly executed; fast, rapid; (of pace) briskly maintained.In quot. a1325: (of a legal right) quickly effective, immediate.Sometimes with connotations of skill or cleverness of execution: cf. sense 10a.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > relative time > immediacy > [adjective]
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suddenc1390
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wightlaykec1450
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on or upon a (or the) sudden1558
immediate1569
instant1598
momentaneous1657
abrupt1725
presto1767
summary1771
momentary1799
pistolgraph1859
fast1863
the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > [adjective] > specifically of movement or action
radeOE
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quickc1325
round1525
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rapid1605
slashing1824
the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > [adjective] > specifically of pace
smart1748
rattling1768
slapping1812
fast-paced1838
clipping1845
spanking1857
a1325 Statutes of Realm (Rawl. B.520) (2011) vii. 45 Þer nis no writ..wareþoru þe plaintifs habbez smarttere [altered from smattere] riȝt þane þoru þe writ of nouele disseisine.
a1425 ( H. Daniel Liber Uricrisiarum (Wellcome 225) 369 Ȝif þe spatle appere gros in begynnynge,..& son efter þat turn to thyk, god takyn for hys smart changynge.
?c1450 (a1388) tr. Richard of Wallingford Exafrenon (Digby) in J. D. North Wks. Richard of Wallingford (1976) I. 211 The Mone..is evermore of more vertue when she is of smert movynge.
1519 W. Horman Vulgaria xxxii. f. 283v Geue a smarte lose with thyn arowe and thy stryng.
1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. ii. 143 You shall see the water spontaneously arise to a competent height in the Tube, with a quick and smart ascent.
1682 C. Ness Astrol. & Theol. Disc. 13 Jupiter hath a smarter Motion, finishing his Revolution in about 12. Years, whereas Saturn doth require about 30.
1748 D. Hume True Acct. Behaviour & Conduct A. Stewart 17 Before they reached Edinburgh, they had come to a pretty smart Gallop.
1788 Gentleman's Mag. Aug. 445/1 It proceeded slowly up William-street..; after which it set off with a smart pace for Powers-court.
1818 Sporting Mag. 3 29 Newton by a smart left-handed flip, drew the claret in profusion from his mouth.
1895 Daily News 17 May 3/7 Chatterton being out to a very smart catch at mid-on.
1935 D. L. Sayers Gaudy Night xii. 257 The Proctor's bull-dogs..had come through the archway at a smart trot.
1940 M. Dickens Mariana v. 147 When she wanted to execute a smart tacking movement she would shout excitedly, ‘Look out, I'm going to turn!’
2006 Western Daily Press (Nexis) 26 July 13 The local RSPB official who dared to turn up to watch came near to being lynched before beating a smart retreat.
b. Of a person or (occasionally) a thing: quick in action or response; lively, active; prompt. Frequently in predicative use. Cf. to look smart at Phrases 1. Chiefly regional in later use.
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > rapidity or speed of action or operation > [adjective] > prompt to act
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c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 5575 Þe Sarzyn, þat was fers & smert, howel oppon þe helm he gert.
a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne (Harl.) l. 4816 Man þat wel spedyþ hym yn dede And messager smart at nede.
c1500 How Good Wife taught her Daughter (Ashm.) l. 194 (MED) When þi seruantes haue do þer werke, To pay þer hyre loke þou be smerte.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 324/2 Smarte, swyfte, soudayn.
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. iv. 177 This year began the smart and active Councel of Basil.
1658 Sir T. Browne Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall i. 3 Water hath proved the smartest grave; which in forty dayes swallowed almost mankinde.
1687 tr. Sallust Wks. 96 All the while Catiline, with the most active and smartest of his followers kept still in the head of his Men.
1795 J. O'Keeffe Life's Vagaries ii. i. 23 Ah my dear hubby, I wish you were as good a sportsman as your 'prentice Tony Dickins, ah he's the smart fellow.
1808 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 19 106 Leaving for him two smart purges of calomel and jalap.
1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre I. iv. 45 Bessie Lee..was smart in all she did.
1899 F. T. Bullen Log of Sea-waif 342 We were mighty smart getting under way.
1907 F. Hume Silent House xxx. 273 As a rule, he is always smart in replying... I'm sure he will be over soon.
1987 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 15 Sept. 4 Probably the same beauty had caught the eye of a dozen others so you had to be smart off the mark.
c. Chiefly Horse Racing (later also in coursing and greyhound racing). Of a horse or dog: fast, quick.
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1760 G. Baretti Dict. Eng. & Ital. Lang. I Puledrino.., a little smart colt.
1823 New-Hampsh. Statesman 4 Aug. 1/2 The rogues..having a smart horse, which put to his utmost speed,..could not be easily passed.
1831 New Sporting Mag. Sept. 348/1 Nor, despite her winning the Drawing-room Stakes.., do I consider old Sadler's very smart mare Delight to stand much of a chance.
1862 Manch. Guardian 17 Mar. 4/5 Dirt Cheap..is a smart filly over short courses.
1892 H. Cox Coursing in H. Cox & G. Lascelles Coursing & Falconry (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) 13 [He] had backed his nomination to win a good round sum, having an idea that a bitch called Wild Geranium (believed to be very smart) would fill it.
1900 W. S. Dixon In North Countree ii. 83 Captain Christie's speedy mare Miss Julia..used to be exceedingly smart over half-a-mile.
1987 Racing Monthly Apr. 60/2 If one of the horses turns out to be something really smart, you would..share in the vast profits.
2012 Advocate (Burnie, Austral.) (Nexis) 15 May 34 [They] will be chasing the spoils with their smart middle distance greyhound Wynburn Jet in Thursday night's..final.
d. Chiefly North American colloquial (originally U.S.). Of a person: healthy, well. Now rare.
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the world > health and disease > [adjective] > of health: good > healthy
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1788 J. May Jrnl. 31 Aug. (1873) (modernized text) 116 Didn't feel smart enough to go to meeting.
1832 J. J. Strang Diary 23 Aug. in M. M. Quaife Kingdom of St. James (1930) 205 This commenced the sickest day I ever suffered since my remembrance but now (evening) I am again smart for a sick person.
1839 G. C. Lewis Gloss. Words Herefordshire 95 Smart.., in good health.
1884 J. Gay Canada's Poet 94 Young men rise smart and healthy, rosy cheeks so Clear and bright, see those cheeks again to-morrow Cut down like grass a withered sight.
1956 ‘B. Holiday’ & W. Dufty Lady sings Blues i. 10 By the time she worked her way out of hock in the hospital and took me home to her folks, I was so big and smart I could sit up in a carriage.
9. Forward, impudent; cheeky, pert. Now frequently in to be (also get) smart (with another) (colloquial).In quot. c1400 probably: glib.
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the mind > emotion > pride > impudence > [adjective]
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the mind > emotion > pride > impudence > be or become impudent [verb (intransitive)]
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to have the (also a) neck (to)c1395
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to push (also show) a face1765
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c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) l. 4153 Darrie was wel sore anoyede..And seide: ‘Of tale þou art smart!’
c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 5 In this trowing and holding thei ben so kete and so smert and so wantoun.
?1567 M. Parker Whole Psalter cxlix. 422 To be a rod: to chastise smart, straunge peoples froward hart.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 144 The curst, sharp, smart,..implacable and wanton-rowling-eyed Women.
1736 S. Wesley Poems 392 Moll thought she safely might be smart, With Priviledge of a Sweet-heart.
1765 G. Keate Temple-student 13 Ask for my Letters..Or, if I have already had 'em, Lounge at the Bar, be smart with Madam.
1824 Examiner 756/1 Never being smart, ironical, or what we will venture to call imputative.
1877 Louisiana in 1876 (44th U.S. Congr. 2nd Sess. Senate Rep. No. 701) II. 1583 I don't want none of your damn smart tongue.
1933 E. O'Neill Ah, Wilderness! ii. 60 Tommy..Uncle Sid's soused again. Mrs. Miller..You be quiet! Did I ever! You're getting too smart!
1956 ‘B. Holiday’ & W. Dufty Lady sings Blues i. 12 This time Cousin Ida beat me for being smart with her.
1983 N.Y. Times 21 Dec. a26/2 My kids started making smart remarks about how old-fashioned tee-shirts look.
1998 T. McHale Casualty (BBC TV post-production script) (O.E.D. Archive) 13th Ser. Episode 1. 50 Don't get smart with me.
10.
a. Clever, intelligent, knowledgeable; capable, adept; quick at learning, responding intelligently to a situation, etc.; astute, shrewd; (of an action) characterized by cleverness or astuteness.Also as the second element in compounds, in the sense ‘clever in respect of’, ‘wise to’, as street-smart adj. at street n. and adj. Compounds 4.Now the most common sense in North American usage.
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the world > action or operation > ability > [adjective] > clever or capable
smart1571
the mind > mental capacity > understanding > wisdom, sagacity > worldly wisdom > [adjective]
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1571 R. Sempill in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. 195 Smart in my schuitting & singular in my Science.
1628 R. Le Grys tr. J. Barclay Argenis ii. 81 For he, a smart young man, and of great iudgement,..held vp the Kings side.
1658 tr. J. Ussher Ann. World 525 Being..loath to engage in fight with Fimbria, who was both a smart fellow, and a Conqueror to boot.
1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 26. ⁋5 [He] is what we most justly call, a Smart Fellow.
1786 M. Cutler Let. 20 Apr. in W. P. Cutler & J. P. Cutler Life, Jrnls. & Corr. M. Cutler (1888) I. 189 Those of my subscribers who are smart, able men, I have told shall have an equal chance with other proprietors.
1844 Mrs. Houstoun Texas & Gulf of Mexico II. 215 The Opossum is held in great respect by the Yankees, as a particularly ‘smart’ animal.
1850 A. Jones Memorandum 4 June in Memoranda & Official Corr. Republic of Texas 89 He has succeeded for fourteen years in humbugging an intelligent people into the belief that it was a ‘smart’ move on his part.
1879 A. Trollope John Caldigate II. vii. 90 He had been singularly lucky as to the circumstances and time of the sale. But there had been nothing ‘smart’ about it.
1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. II. lxv. 484 In America every smart man is expected to be able to do anything he turns his hand to.
1908 L. M. Montgomery Anne of Green Gables xvii. 192 Mr. Phillips says I'm the worst dunce he ever saw at it. And Gil—I mean some of the others are so smart at it.
1943 H. L. Mencken Diary 13 Mar. (1989) 242 Cairns is a smart fellow and writes very well, but he wastes too much time on philosophy.
1988 P. Wayburn Adventuring in Alaska (rev. ed.) i. 48 It is not smart to try stream crossings wearing a long rain poncho or cagoule.
1991 H. Kureishi London kills Me 58 You're smart, girlie. What you doing with these bad boys? You're above them.
2002 BusinessWeek 4 Nov. 122/3 For all but the largest producers, the smartest choice may be to go ‘fabless’, avoiding the manufacturing rat race.
b. Of a device or machine: appearing to have a degree of intelligence; able to react or respond to differing requirements, varying situations, or past events; programmed so as to be capable of some independent action; (in later use) spec. containing a microprocessor (opposed to dumb adj. 7c). Of a material, medicine, etc.: designed to act or respond to conditions in a more sophisticated way than is typical.See also Compounds 2b.
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the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > [adjective] > displaying intelligence > of device
smart1948
society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > types of machine generally > [adjective] > automatic > semi-automatic
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1948 Sci. News Let. 21 Aug. 123/2 The earlier eniac was pretty smart but the univac is even smarter.
1972 Proc. IEEE 60 1282/1 The term ‘smart terminal’ is used here to identify an interactive terminal in which part of the processing is accomplished by a small computer or processor contained within the terminal itself.
1979 Sci. News 116 232/1 Targeting drugs to the site of their desired action is a continuing challenge to medicinal chemists... ‘Smart’ drugs may be in the offing for a variety of diseases.
1986 W. L. Schweber Integrated Circuits for Computers i. 9 The intelligent controller (often called ‘smart’ in the electronics field) uses a program rather than a hard-wire approach.
1990 N.Y. Times 25 Jan. c6/6 The ultimate manifestation of the ‘smart’ house..was the Smart Seat, a microprocessor-controlled bidet attachment for the toilet.
1996 Times 22 Apr. 11/8 Technical matters discussed include ‘smart mines’, which deactivate or self-destruct 30 days after they have been laid.
1998 New Jersey Monthly Jan. 56/2 We've added smart lamps with data ports to enable business travelers to link up to their computer modems.
2011 Tampa (Florida) Tribune (Nexis) 22 May 4 Peak-hour traffic can still overwhelm smart signals, according to the Florida Department of Transportation.
c. Designating a (real or hypothetical) substance, esp. a drug, that (supposedly) increases intelligence or enhances other aspects of cognitive performance; (of a foodstuff or drink) containing such a substance; (of a bar) providing such items.Recorded earliest (in figurative use) in smart pill n. 1.
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1954 San Mateo (Calif.) Times 24 July 12/5 Some one of these days Don Levinson is going to get hold of a handful of smart pills and forget about road racing.
1966 Sci. News 89 187/1 Many biologists believe this would explain the mysterious memory-enhancing qualities of RNA and the new ‘smart’ drug.
1991 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 30 Dec. 4/2Smart drinks’..are popping up at trendy nightclubs and private parties.
1992 Independent 6 Aug. 6/5 In California, ‘smart bars’ have opened where people can drop in and consume cocktails containing ‘cognition enhancers’.
2009 P. Holford Optimum Nutrition for Mind xxxviii. 212 My recommendation under any circumstance is to start with no more than one smart drug or hormone, at the lower dose..and build up gradually.
d. Of a building: incorporating technology that allows a high degree of central computer control of services such as heating, lighting, and communications, typically with the aim of ensuring the most efficient use of resources. Cf. intelligent building n. at intelligent n., adj., and adv. Compounds 2.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > types of building generally > [adjective] > other specific
standing1624
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LU1969
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smart1984
1984 Christian Sci. Monitor 28 Feb. 6/4 One Financial Place will be the smartest of his smart buildings, he says. It will offer an information network as well as a message service.
1993 Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Gaz. 25 Apr. 3 e I have heard that one of the new smart home total automation systems can cut my utility bills by 25 percent.
2001 Smarthouse Feb. 10/2 The company's conversion of the existing old office building into 120 smart-apartments took the silver award in the ‘Best Apartment’ category.
2012 Daily Tel. (Austral.) (Nexis) 18 May 24 The Taylor family were chosen form more than 100 applicants to live rent-free in the smart home and test it out.
11.
a. Of a remark, saying, etc.: clever, pointed; witty and apposite.See also smart talk n. (a) at Compounds 2a.
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the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > wit, wittiness > [adjective] > of speech or writing
smart1585
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1585 T. Bilson True Difference Christian Subiection iv. 697 If all the Preachers in England would haue laide their heades together..they could not haue done it in quicker and smarter speech.
1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso i. lv. 110 We find some Histories..abounding in smart politick precepts.
1673 S'too him Bayes 19 I acknowledge this Expression to be nice and smart.
1739 tr. C. Rollin Anc. Hist. (ed. 2) VI. 105 Cicero, who ascribes this saying to Timæus, declares it a very smart one.
1752 S. Johnson Rambler No. 194. ⁋11 He mistakes the question, that he may return a smart answer.
1824 T. F. Dibdin Libr. Compan. 539 A short, but smart notice of him.
1879 L. Stephen Hours in Libr. 3rd Ser. ii. 65 Mandeville..passes off his smart sayings upon the public as serious.
1901 Munsey's Mag. Oct. 129/2 While it lacks the abundance of ‘smart’ speeches that lent such sparkle to Captain Marshall's other military comedy, ‘His Excellency the Governor’, it contains more of real human nature.
1937 Life 12 Apr. 6/1 (advt.) This gay gaballero is, by his own admission, pretty hot stuff with smart quips and witty sayings.
1964 Jet 7 May 17 A few had smart quips for the demonstrators.
1997 J. Daugharty Earl in Yellow Shirt (1998) 47 Always picking his teeth with a broomstraw, popping my bra, yanking my hair, trying to come up with some smart saying. He's dumb!
b. Of a person: clever in talk or argument; capable of making witty remarks, quick-witted; adept at repartee.See also smart talker n. at Compounds 2a.
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the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > sharpness, shrewdness, insight > [adjective]
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the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > wit, wittiness > [adjective]
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1639 P. Massinger Unnaturall Combat iv. ii. sig. I2v A smart queane.
1695 J. Edwards Disc. conc. Old & New-Test. III. xii. 514 The younger Vossius is a smart Advocate for the Septuagint.
1727 A. Pope et al. Περι Βαθους: Art of Sinking 65 in J. Swift et al. Misc.: Last Vol. It is by Virtue of this Stile that..Tully is as short and smart as Seneca.
1753 J. Collier Ess. Art of Tormenting Rules 199 This, I have been told, is what they call being smart in company.
1779 F. Burney Evelina (ed. 2) II. xix. 167 You're so smart, there is no speaking to you.
1829 London Lit. Gaz. 26 Dec. 847/1 They are smart in their remarks, and very excellent mimics and imitators.
1895 19th Cent. Aug. 324 He is decidedly smarter as an all-round talker.
1942 Billboard 17 Jan. 24/3 The girl is a smart Gracie Allen-type with a good line of chatter and an engaging personality.
2004 Diva Mar. 60/3 The smart and sassy ensemble exchange quick-witted repartee which reveals..many lesbian clichés and touches of nostalgia for the 70s.
12. Alert, energetic; spec. (chiefly Military) having a brisk and orderly bearing, esp. combined with a neatness of appearance (cf. sense 13c). Also in extended use.
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > [adjective] > brisk or active
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the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > [adjective] > moving swiftly and briskly
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the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > pleasing appearance > [adjective] > neat or trim > and brisk
smart1602
1602 J. Marston Hist. Antonio & Mellida iii. sig. E4 I..Strook a faire wench, with a smart speaking eye.
1683 A. Wood Life 9 Sept. The smart lads of the city march'd downe the streets with cudgells in their hands.
1777 Selector 2 Jan. 310 Garrick was too smart and dapper in it [sc. the part of Romeo], and always looked as if nothing ailed him.
1785 W. Cowper Task iv. 648 He hates the field,..And sighs for the smart comrades he has left.
1827 O. W. Roberts Narr. Voy. Central Amer. 80 Sufficient [room] for a smart vessel to work in or out.
1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 29 Aug. 1/2 The Egyptian soldier is..smart, clean, and cheap.
1920 Infantry Jrnl. (U.S.) Apr. 914/2 If he is a smart soldier, he will take pride in the way he salutes.
1994 J. Biggins Tomorrow the World (2007) 263 The Americans were very smart about their work: even swabbed the decks down for us afterwards.
13.
a. Of an item of clothing, etc.: attractively neat and stylish; relatively formal.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [adjective] > fine, elegant, or smart
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1704 R. Steele Lying Lover iv. 40 What shall I do for Powder for this smart Bob.
1712 W. Darrell Gentleman Instructed: 3rd Pt. i. 13 Nothing would please his Worship, but Smart Shooes, Smart Hats, and Smart Cravats... The truth is he had been bred up with the Groom, and transplanted the Stable dialect into the Dressing-Room.
1743 H. Fielding Jonathan Wild i. x, in Misc. III. 59 A blue Plush coat,..a smart Sleeve, and a cape.
1823 W. Scott Quentin Durward I. ii. 20 The smart blue bonnet..was already recognized as the Scottish head-gear.
1859 W. Collins Queen of Hearts I. 69 The man..had a collection of smart little boots and shoes.
1900 Daily News 8 Sept. 6/3 Two-thirds of the smart dresses are now made with an Eton or bolero over a more or less ornamental front.
1960 A. Waugh Foxglove Saga xii. 223 Martin had donned the Pig's Full Dress Mess Kit..and in its smart red monkey-jacket, narrow blue overalls with a broad red stripe..he really did look most striking.
1989 Times 27 May 35/1 (advt.) Good food, fine wine & live entertainment... Smart dress only.
2006 Guardian 17 Apr. i. 26/3 They are well-dressed young persons with clean linen, smart neckties, gorgeous ‘belchers’ round their throats, and brightly polished boots.
b. Of a building, vehicle, etc.: neat and pleasing in appearance; clean, bright, well presented or maintained.
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1762 S. Foote Orators i. i. 21 His eyes are constantly caught by the appearance of a smart house, prefac'd with white rails and prologu'd by a red door.
1823 Count de Soligny Lett. Eng. II. lxviii. 281 Looking out on the smart shops, the nicely paved streets.
1851 N. Hawthorne Twice-told Tales I. xvi. 252 There, in a smart chaise, a dashingly dressed gentleman and lady.
1894 J. D. Astley Fifty Years of my Life I. 94 We put up at a very smart hotel.
1915 Munsey's Mag. Dec. 435/1 Your eyes caress this smart machine,..I know you love my limousine.
1970 Illustr. London News 18 July 13/4 The smart Georgian building.
2006 Daily Mail (Nexis) 18 Nov. 26 Reg drives a smart new van.
c. Of a person: neatly or (relatively) formally dressed; appearing neat and stylish; tidy, well turned-out.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [adjective] > smartly or elegantly dressed
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well-dressed1484
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the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > pleasing appearance > [adjective] > neat or trim
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whip-smart1937
spit and polish1950
spit-and-polished1977
c1778 C. Burney in F. Burney Early Diary (1907) II. 287 Dr. Johnson was immensely smart, for him,—for he had not only a very decent tidy suit of cloathes on, but his hands, face, and linnen were clean.
1789 H. L. Piozzi Observ. Journey France II. 204 We observed..how the town was become neater, the ordinary people smarter.
1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. ii. 34 Walking out to dinner, clean and smart.
1888 Poor Nellie 127 Adela had noticed how smart he looked.
1933 A. M. Lindbergh Let. 29 Sept. in Locked Rooms & Open Doors (1974) 120 The grand old-style hotel. All employees well dressed, lipsticked women on each floor, smart maids.
1999 M. T. Myambo in Y. Vera Opening Spaces 16 I was looking very smart in a flowing lemon-yellow dress with matching shoes.
2005 Daily Tel. 26 Sept. 18/7 He never managed to be smart, his waistcoat..generally unbuttoned and showing his braces, his sleeves rolled up.
d. Of a fabric, design, etc.: attractive, neat, stylish; richly or daintily decorative.
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the mind > attention and judgement > attractiveness > [adjective]
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glorious skinnyc1400
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smart1860
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seductious1883
fruity1900
barry1923
hot stuff1928
swoony1934
dishy1961
dolly1964
jiggy1996
aegyo2007
the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [adjective] > smart
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distingué1813
dashy1822
nutty1823
chic1832
slicked1836
flash1838
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smart1860
sassy1861
classy1870
spiffing1872
toffish1873
tony1877
swish1879
hep1899
toffy1901
hip1904
toppy1905
in1906
floozy1911
swank1913
jazz1917
ritzy1919
smooth1920
snappy1925
snazzy1931
groovy1937
what ho1937
gussy1940
criss1954
high camp1954
sprauncy1957
James Bondish1966
James Bond1967
schmick1972
designer1978
atas1993
as fine as fivepence-
1860 Harper's Mag Feb. 343/1 First, after the clergyman and the bearers, come Mrs. Spooner and Hannah Maria, the former in a smart black silk, the latter in yellow barége.
1888 Poor Nellie 8 I will make a cover for them,..a smart one of blue velvet.
1937 Amer. Home Apr. 101/1 (advt.) In your bedroom, smart new cushions, bedspreads—even deep-pile rugs.
1952 Van Nuys (California) News 21 Feb. 1 b (advt.) Jumbo Size Pilsner Glass. Beautifully etched in smart floral patterns.
1996 M&S Mag. Winter 69/3 Christmas chocolates this year come in smart gold paper with a red ribbon, wrapped and hand-tied in Belgium.
2004 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 1 Feb. ix. 3/3 A dog collar in smart dark red leather comes in three sizes and costs $52 (bichon frisé not included).
14. Fashionable, elegant, sophisticated; belonging to or associated with fashionable or high society. See also smart set n. at Compounds 2a.
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society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > fashionable society > [adjective]
townishc1450
of mode1676
fashionable1712
smart1719
high-lifed1733
social1741
high-lived1757
West Endish1855
Fifth Avenue1858
mundane1904
societified1912
Park Avenue1923
1719 Free-thinker No. 158. 2 A Cluster of smart Men, in tawdry Dresses, with little Rapiers.
1793 A. Seward Lett. (1811) III. 275 This beach..covered with smart people, and with equipages.
1811 J. Austen Sense & Sensibility I. xix. 239 I always preferred the church as I still do. But that was not smart enough for my family. They recommended the army. That was a great deal too smart for me. View more context for this quotation
1845 M. J. Higgins in New Monthly Mag. Aug. 574 They..got my wife invited to several very smart balls.
1881 W. H. Mallock Romance 19th Cent. II. 254 Many smart people were shy of Mrs. Crane.
1899 Echo 1 Nov. 1/4 Artlessly protestant against the vicious vanities of smart society.
1926 J. Galsworthy Silver Spoon ii. viii. 183 ‘Don't know why he keeps on an amateur like that.’ ‘Box office, dear boy; she brings the smart people.’
1953 A. Hosain Phoenix Fled 150 With his charm and his means he soon became a favourite of the smart social set.
1969 V. Bartlett Past of Pastimes x. 134 Modern ski-ing—the kind of ski-ing which in winter..links smart hotels to remote peaks by ski-lifts and téléfériques.
2008 Daily Tel. 25 Aug. 20/2 On returning to England, the scamsters would go to the smart shops in Manchester and buy items identical in design, size and colour to those they had brought back from China.
III. Substantial, considerable.
15. colloquial and regional (now chiefly North American). Considerable in number, amount, extent, etc.; substantial, large. See also right smart adj.smart chance: see chance n. 4b. [The semantic development of this sense is unclear, and may owe something to several of the earlier senses.]
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the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > considerable in amount or degree
goodeOE
fairOE
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tidy1839
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largish1872
a nice little ——1891
significant1898
healthy1901
beaucoup1917
the world > relative properties > number > plurality > great number, numerousness > [adjective] > abundant, numerous
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1750 C. Smith Antient & Present State Cork I. ii. iv. 289 The Kingsale fishermen also come hither and build huts, where they cure their fish, and for this they pay a smart rent.
a1777 S. Foote Devil upon Two Sticks (1778) ii. 44 [Scotsman] Ah! for the mater of that, it is a praty smart little income.
1819 D. Thomas Trav. Western Country 230 A considerable number is expressed by a smart chance; and our hostess at Madison said, there was ‘a smart chance of yankees’ in that village.
1839 G. C. Lewis Gloss. Words Herefordshire 95 ‘A smart few’ means a considerable number.
1855 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes II. xlii. 374 Madame..left a smart legacy to the..children.
1882 I. Mayo Mrs. Raven's Temptation I. 276 Hope you will get a smart fee with it.
1901 E. G. Hayden Trav. round Village ii. 38 The neighbours..noticed that he ‘broke a smart deal’ that autumn.
1991 R. A. Couto Ain't gonna let Nobody turn me Round i. i. 32 Spent a smart amount of our personal cash money because we didn't know how to go at it.

Phrases

P1. colloquial (chiefly British). to look smart: to move or act quickly or energetically. Frequently in imperative: ‘be quick’, ‘hurry up’. Cf. to look lively at lively adj. and n. Phrases, to look sharp at sharp adv. Phrases.In earlier use frequently in nautical contexts.
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1823 Manch. Iris 13 Dec. 401/3 Look smart, and I'll turn the spit till somebody comes.
1862 F. Moore Rebellion Rec. IV. 62/1 His mates and crew were restricted to one bag of clothing each, and he was advised to ‘look smart’ about it.
1893 G. A. Henty In Greek Waters xv. 257 All hands get off sail! Look smart, my lads; there is a..squall coming.
1917 A. G. Empey Over Top 311Toots Sweet’. Tommy's French for ‘hurry up’, ‘look smart’.
1974 New Scientist 7 Mar. 629/1 Some..put out their hands to touch him.., but they have to look smart about it, or he is gone before they can pay tribute.
2010 Daily Record (Glasgow) (Nexis) 5 Aug. (Sport section) 70 Zaluska had to look smart to stop Cesar drilling home a quick-fire second goal.
P2.
a. colloquial (chiefly U.S.). smart as a whip: very sharp or lively; spec. extremely intelligent or clever. Cf. whip-smart adj.
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1821 Supporter & Scioto (Ohio) Gaz. 7 Nov. 1/2 His daughters are as lively and as smart as a whip.
1860 Republican Jrnl. (Columbus, Wisconsin) 9 Feb. 1/7 Mr. A—— was a prompt and successful business man, ‘smart as a whip’, as the Yankees say.
1909 Out West June 556 Miss June and I grew up together, went to school together; she's about five years the younger, but smart as a whip.
1958 J. L. Herlihy & W. Noble Blue Denim (1986) i. 18 But don't get it into your head that kid's not as smart as a whip... Some day he's going to be a big executive for the Detroit Edison company.
1988 Chicago Tribune 28 Oct. 23 Paul Pryde is the same man I have known all these years: smart as a whip, an astute economic and political analyst, with a keen eye for opportunity disguised as disadvantage.
2010 Good Housek. (Nexis) 1 Apr. 66 My little dog Karoo is smart as a whip. She knows where the craft-services [food] tables are.
b. smart as a steel trap: see steel trap n. (b) at steel n.1 Compounds 8.

Compounds

C1.
smart-looking adj.
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1760 G. Baretti Dict. Eng. & Ital. Lang. I. Servitorino, a smart-looking little man-servant; a foot-boy.
1865 Once a Week 15 July 108/2 Grunter was talking to..the old lady—a clean, smart-looking widow, who kept a preparatory school next door.
1955 ‘A. Aldrich’ We walk Alone i. 13 The pair of smart-looking, urbane women executives at a table in a corner getting high on Rob Roys.
2002 Best of Brit. Nov. 37/1 A smart-looking police officer with shiny boots and white over-sleeves waits for the approaching van.
smart-suited adj.
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1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. x. [Wandering Rocks] 243 James's wax smartsuited freshcheeked models.
1994 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 23 June 18/1 The smart suited head of the Polish Scientific Publishers.
2002 Mirror 27 Mar. 17/4 Stay at any LA hotel and you'll see the divide before your eyes. The smart-suited ladies behind reception desks are white, the ladies who clean your rooms are not.
smart-tongued adj.
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1602 B. Jonson Poetaster iv. v. sig. H2v A good smart-tongu'd Goddesse. View more context for this quotation
1868 Quiver 24 Oct. 34/2 That quick witted, smart tongued, bright eyed little person.
1902 Athenæum 20 Sept. 370/3 She is self-willed, perverse, smart-tongued and full of resource.
1998 Los Angeles Mag. Aug. 42 Zeta-Jones and Hopkins are together again, he as the master bandit and she as his daughter, a sword-wielding, smart-tongued stunner.
smart-witted adj.
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1838 H. W. Torrens tr. Bk. Thousand Nights & One Night I. 78 Now you be three, and you require a fourth, and here am I, a man, sensible, a prudent fellow, smart-witted, and one that can keep counsel.
1897 Daily News 28 Sept. 2/1 That friendly, but smart-witted Power.
1948 C. E. Robinson Hellas ix, 149 Among the characters appear the gay young spendthrift and his fast young mistress, the unscrupulous go-between, the smart-witted slave and the stingy tyrannical father.
2011 J. C. Naidoo Celebrating Cuentos iii. 50 Children who read these stories encounter indigenous cultures and peoples along with smart-witted Mexican children who provide for their families.
C2.
a.
smart apple n. U.S. colloquial (a) a person who is or wishes to appear clever or knowledgeable, but is regarded as smug and annoying; = smart alec n.; (b) a shrewd or intelligent person; a smart cookie (cf. cookie n. 2a).
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the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > sharpness, shrewdness, insight > would-be clever person > [noun]
clever-boots1847
smarty1847
smart alec1864
clever-clogs1866
clever-sides1886
clever Dick1895
wise guy1896
wisenheimer1904
smarty-pants1935
quiz kid1940
smart apple1940
smarty-boots1950
smart-ass1958
slick1959
clever-sticks1964
smart-arse1965
wise-ass1971
1940 Big Spring (Texas) Daily Herald 19 Sept. 9/4 His confession surprised practically nobody in the literary world except, possibly, the smart apple who reviewed the book.
1946 T. Bell There comes Time ix. 57 Here's a smart apple like you working your ass off for a lousy forty bucks a week.
1980 L. Sanders Caper (1987) 168 I realized what a smart apple this Black Jack Donohue was... He was shrewd enough to know that I wouldn't endanger Dick.
2004 Houston Chron. (Nexis) 2 May (Sports section) 1 Jones showed all the doubters and smart apples that a champion doesn't need to be a majestic figure or born of blue blood.
smart growth n. U.S. Town Planning planned growth of new buildings in accordance with social and environmental considerations or priorities; spec. development which aims to enhance the quality of life of inhabitants by providing improved infrastructure, facilities, etc., esp. in a compact urban area, and seeks to be environmentally sustainable; frequently attributive.
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1990 PR Newswire (Nexis) 9 Nov. Citizens' groups collected more than 1,000 signatures on petitions calling for a public referendum on a ‘smart-growth’ initiative which would limit new housing to three percent per year.
1991 Frederick (Maryland) Post 8 Mar. a7/1 I went to this..neighbourhood, and took along some legislators, because it was a good example of ‘smart growth’.
2000 A. Cuomo State of Cities, 2000 74 One approach to smart growth is to achieve higher densities by clustering houses around a transportation hub.
2004 Herald-Times (Bloomington, Indiana) 9 June a8/2 A..smart growth project that promises to make Bloomingtonians proud and serve as an excellent model for future infill projects in the city.
smart mouth n. U.S. slang (chiefly depreciative) a person who makes witty comments at another's expense; an impudent or cheeky person.
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the mind > emotion > pride > impudence > [noun] > impudent person > in speech
vauntparlera1529
saucebox1588
cheeker1840
saucepot1890
smart mouth1966
jay-
the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > wit, wittiness > wit with words > [noun] > one who indulges in
quipper1589
quipster1790
persifleur1829
cross-talker1907
smart mouth1966
1966 M. Terry Keep tightly Closed in Tulane Drama Rev. 10 197 Since when did you get to be such a smart mouth?
1968 Sun (Baltimore) 13 Oct. (Mag.) 19/1 I was a smart mouth, a troublemaker in school.
1985 O. S. Card Ender's Game v. 45 What are you, a smartmouth?
2001 N.Y. Mag. 19 Mar. 67/1 Bill Nunn plays his henpecked partner, ‘Pip’, and Diane Farr is the workplace smart-mouth.
smart-mouth v. transitive to be cheeky or impudent to; to be witty at the expense of.
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the mind > emotion > pride > impudence > treat impudently [verb (transitive)] > speak impudently to
sauce1822
to give (a person) sauce1823
sass1836
cheek1840
chin1871
lip1898
back-sass1917
smart-mouth1970
the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > wit, wittiness > wit with words > say as a quip [verb (transitive)] > in attack
quirk1596
squib1631
smart-mouth1970
1970 M. Spillane Survival...Zero! i. 10 This time he didn't try smart-mouthing me.
1976 R. B. Parker Promised Land (1977) xii. 65 Don't smart-mouth me, man. You wising off at me?
2005 P. F. Hamilton Judas Unchained ix. 424 You want to smartmouth me again, or do you want to survive the next twenty four hours?
smart-mouthed adj. characterized by impudence or (esp. barbed) wit.
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the mind > emotion > pride > impudence > [adjective] > impudent in speech or of speech
bardish1641
brisk1665
flippant1677
sassy1799
slang1818
lippy1875
smart-mouthed1967
the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > wit, wittiness > wit with words > [adjective]
snip-snap1673
quippish1817
quippy1859
quipsome1881
smart-mouthed1967
zinging1972
1967 Life 4 Aug. 8/4 The dialogue is smart-mouthed and the action is unpredictably explosive.
1978 J. Irving World according to Garp xii. 229 Some smart-mouthed motorist..will..ask.., ‘What are you in training for?’
2008 S. Armitage Gig (2009) 199 I've come to think that aspirant poets could do a whole lot worse than listen to smart-mouthed entertainers and deadpan comics like Lehrer and Newhart.
smart sanction n. Politics a sanction against a nation or state that targets specific persons (esp. members of the ruling elite) or particular imported (esp. military) goods, in order to minimize the adverse effects on the general civilian population; frequently in plural.
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1995 Associated Press Worldstream (Nexis) 18 Jan. The United Nations ‘should not be seduced by “smart sanctions” which are partially and narrowly targeted’, said British Ambassador David Hannay. ‘They are notoriously hard to enforce and therefore unlikely to have the desired effect.’
2002 Village Voice (N.Y.) 22 Jan. 35/1 They proposed..‘smart sanctions’, which would allow the Iraqi citizenry access to a far greater range of goods while clamping down more firmly on ‘dual use’ items with potential military applications.
2009 D. P. Forsythe Encycl. Human Rights I. 84/1 A smart sanction might freeze financial assets of varied types and might restrict or deny aviation and travel.
smart set n. colloquial (sometimes depreciative, with connotations of decadence) the extremely fashionable portion of society; fashionable people considered as a group; also in extended use.
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society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > fashionable society > [noun]
higheOE
high life?a1518
towna1616
world1618
grand monde1673
society1693
beau monde1712
fine world1740
monde1765
tonc1770
high society1782
fashion1807
all the world1808
society1840
smart set1851
swelldom1854
Fifth Avenue1858
fashionabledom1859
haut monde1864
the big cheesea1910
higlif1911
haute Bohème1925
café society1937
jet set1949
beautiful people1950
1851 C. Norton Stuart of Dunleath I. xiii. 215 He did not belong to the ‘smart set’ of London society; he had not cared to belong to it.
1885 E. W. Hamilton Diary 20 May (1972) II. 867 Dined at Brook House... This is a house at which one meets the ‘grand set’ as distinct from the ‘smart set’—two totally different sections of the best London Society.
1900 Smart Set Apr. 137 The Smart Set of London has for the last ten or fifteen years..been the chief influence of our English playwrights, plays and players.
1949 P. Hastings Cases in Court v. 265 Mrs Barney's family were well-known in Mayfair and both Mrs Barney and the dead man were notorious members of the so-called young ‘smart set’.
1974 P. Dickinson Poison Oracle ii. 66 Dinah [sc. an ape]..had indeed left the slums to join the evolutionary smart set, Man.
2004 Sunday Times Trav. Feb. 69/2 This is Green Spain—the Costa Verde—where Madrid's smart set comes to escape the furnace heat of the Castilian summer.
smart talk n. (a) clever, witty, or persuasive talk, esp. of an insincere nature; (b) impertinent or rude remarks or replies; backchat.
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1731 Z. Mudge Liberty 28 Where there is..any undue Motive, not all the smart Talk in the World for Liberty will go farther.
1826 London & Paris Observer 16 Apr. 248/1 I had some smart talk with a Mr. Hollins, constable..; in short, I made him as mad as a wasp.
1903 S. J. A. Fitz-Gerald Love-thirst of Elaine xii. 101 That idiotic love foolishness that..might sway Elaine if exercised by a man like Cates, with his light ways and smart talk.
1988 Washington Post (Nexis) 15 Apr. b1 Unflappable as a Borsch Belter fending off hecklers, he plays hard to get when the kids start with the smart talk and spitballs.
2001 S. L. Lanehart Sociocultural & Hist. Contexts of Afr. Amer. Eng. ii. 222 Smart talk..is reserved for all other communicants as a put-down, reflecting a combative style of language.
2012 Scotsman (Nexis) 10 May 6 A lavish costume drama full of the kind of theatrical smart talk..that makes audiences laugh.
smart-talk v. transitive (a) to engage (a person) in clever, witty, or persuasive conversation, esp. of an insincere nature; (also) to make (one's way) by means of such talk; cf. smooth-talk v.; (b) to talk to or answer (a person) in an impertinent or rude way; cf. smart-mouth vb.
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1930 Blytheville (Arkansas) Courier News 8 Nov. 8/7 On Broadway, they ‘smart talk’ them into thinking they are the most scintillatingly brilliant..creatures that the world ever produced.
1936 San Antonio (Texas) Express 12 Jan. (Comic section) Don't smart talk me!
1988 Mother Jones Apr. 26/1 [He] uses grim unemployment statistics to push the students who smart-talk him.
1994 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 27 Nov. 29/1 [He] smart-talked his way through life and love in New York City.
2002 T. Lott Rumours of Hurricane (2003) ii. 44 Don't you smart-talk me. We put a roof over your head.
smart talker n. a person who engages in clever, witty, or persuasive talk, esp. of an insincere kind.
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1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XIII xcviii. 104 They must..never flinch When some smart talker puts them to the test, But seize the last word, which no doubt's the best.
1901 Outlook 22 June 453/2 He is a smart talker, full of plausible argument, and can make white appear black.
1961 Washington Post 20 June a13/1 The wise guy in many groups establishes himself as a glib and smart talker by just this sort of conversation.
2011 Sunday Independent (Ireland) (Nexis) 19 June The party's imperative is to acquire clever thinkers rather than smart talkers.
smart-talking adj. given to or characterized by clever, witty, or persuasive talk, esp. of an insincere nature.
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1822 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 452/1 A smart-talking, slim-bodied young Cockney, whose courage had..completely forsaken him.
1908 Graettinger (Iowa) Times 24 Dec. 5/3 A number..were hit by a smart talking advertising fakir..and now..can only regret that they did not spend their money with the local printer.
1978 Jet 30 Mar. 30/1 All the other Black actors on regular series portray pimps, prostitutes, butlers, unemployed people, cops or smart-talking kids.
2002 T. Gates Scenario 24 This film—bettered only perhaps by the later Night at the Opera—was one of the founders of American smart-talking comedy.
b. (In sense 10b; see also smartphone n., smart pill n. 2.)
smart antenna n. any of various antennae in which computer technology is used to improve performance; esp. a directional antenna in which the beam is automatically focused on the receiver.
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1977 Microwaves May 46/1 ‘Smart’ antennas will be controlled by microprocessors in spatial scanning applications.
2002 InfoWorld 11 Nov. 28/3 Dozens of antenna elements..form a smart antenna that focuses the RF signal in a point-to-point architecture instead of broadcasting the signal.
2012 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 18 Apr. b1 The smart antenna would direct energy straight at the phones, and..current spectrum would be put to more efficient use.
smart bomb n. a bomb that is guided to its target with a high degree of precision (cf. guided adj. b); frequently figurative.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > explosive device > [adjective] > types of bomb
incendiary1871
heavy1917
dirty1956
smart bomb1970
enhanced radiation1976
1970 Aviation Week & Space Technol. 13 July 55/3 Loran applications..from a simple, low-cost expendable 100 kc. Loran repeater to a complete Loran receiver in a ‘smart’, or guided, bomb are under investigation by USAF.
1986 T. Clancy Red Storm Rising (1988) xvii. 207 Half were F-111F Aardvarks, the other half ‘GR.1’ Tornados, their wings heavy with fuel tanks and smart bombs.
1996 Time (Special Issue) Fall 29/1 In gene therapy, most of the current ‘smart bombs’..are viruses.
1999 Star-Ledger (Newark, New Jersey) 19 Nov. 11/1 Chronic pain..may be controlled by a ‘smart bomb’ drug that brings relief without the dulling side effects of narcotics.
2003 Time Out N.Y. 15 May 66/4 The style of fighting that paintballers reenact..is becoming increasingly irrelevant in the age of smart bombs and Predator drones.
smart box n. any of various compact, box-like electronic devices that need little or no human input.
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1985 Flying Aug. 101/2 The TI 9200 is a smart box, so there is no need to enter north-south designations or leading or trailing zeros if the waypoint is in the northern hemisphere west of the prime meridian.
1990 Sphere July 35/2 The modern carilloneur, however, can ring the changes simply by keying in a few commands to one of Clock-O-Matic's smart boxes.
1994 New Scientist 8 Jan. 7/1Smart boxes’, which route calls by the cheapest network depending on codes, will also need to be modified.
2006 New Yorker 19 June 56/1 Other high-tech security proposals, such as ‘smart boxes’—containers fitted with sensors that will track their location, temperature, and radiation and carbon monoxide levels—are all good in theory.
smart card n. originally U.S. a type of plastic card containing an embedded microchip or integrated circuit, and used for any of a variety of processes carried out electronically, such as financial transactions, authorizing access to a particular area, etc.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > solvency > [noun] > credit documents > credit card
credit card1888
bank card1947
card1950
American Express1958
Amex1958
charge card1962
banker's card1966
Barclaycard1966
cheque card1966
Master Charge1966
gold card1970
asset card1975
debit card1975
visa1976
affinity card1979
master card1979
smart card1980
phonecard1981
key card1985
Connect1987
Switch card1988
1980 N.Y. Times 14 Dec. iii. 4/3 They preferred to write checks, knowing these would not clear until the next pay check had arrived. ‘Smart card’ holders could react the same way.
1983 Electronics 10 Mar. 52 The Army started to explore the smart card in January 1982 as a complete records-keeping vehicle.
1994 A. Kent & J. G. Williams Encycl. Microcomputers XIII. 187 The main advantage of the smart card over magnetic cards is that it can record transactions in its own memory.
2005 Daily Tel. 6 June 4/2 Tag and beacon..requires all motorists to have a machine readable smart card which is read by overhead gantries.
smart charging n. a system for managing the charging of a battery (esp. that of an electric vehicle) that allows the process to be spread flexibly over a period of time, optimizing electricity usage, and extending the life of the battery; frequently as a modifier, esp. in smart charging technology.
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1991 PR Newswire (Nexis) 26 Oct. Cooperation..will be required to bring ‘smart charging’ to market. ‘Smart charging,’..is the GM [sc. General Motors] term for advanced charging technology, enabling electric utilities to balance the load that daytime charging could create.
1992 PR Newswire (Nexis) 30 Dec. ‘The trick of the Smart Charging System is that it takes the diagnostics—the pulse of the battery—several times every second and then adjusts the charge current,’ said..Norvik vice president of Research.
2017 D. Dallinger et al. in O. Veneri Technol. & Applic. for Smart Charging Electric & Plug-in Hybrid Vehicles vi. 237 A setup with long cables increases the sensitivity towards voltage deviations in the grid and therefore enables illustrating possible benefits of smart charging.
2017 Times 26 May 51/1 Royal Dutch Shell is..developing smart charging technology to prevent battery-powered cars causing blackouts.
smart chip n. a microchip; esp. (in later use) one embedded in a smart card.
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1977 Electronics 8 Dec. 96/1 (heading) Smart chip peripherals.
1999 Billboard 2 Oct. 89/2 American Express' new Blue card, which has a smart chip.
2012 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 10 June American credit cards..are not always accepted now that most of the world has shifted to cards that use a smart chip.
smart dust n. Telecommunications a (hypothetical) collection of many minute sensors or other devices capable of wireless communication, designed to perform a task, esp. monitoring or detection, while dispersed over a certain area.
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1998 V. S. Hsu et al. in Univ. Calif., Berkeley: Electronics Res. Lab. Memo. M98/2 (title) Wireless communications for smart dust.
2000 N.Y. Times 31 Dec. iv. 4/3 Clouds of ‘smart dust’—tiny computers and sensors each a cubic millimeter in size—will course through the skies monitoring the weather or the traffic below.
2010 Sci. Amer. (U.K. ed.) July 40/2 These machines might be used for roles that range from ‘smart dust’ that detects the enemy to cellular-level machines.
smart fabric n. a synthetic fabric designed to respond in a particular way to some external stimulus, such as heat or particular chemicals; cf. smart material n.
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1991 Toronto Star 17 Nov. e2/3 Skiers who crave functional sport gear will find that more and more skiwear is made up of temperature-sensitive ‘smart’ fabrics that transform the rays of the sun into body-wrapping warmth.
1998 L. Yamada Market Magic vii. 120 Smart fabrics may soon detect chemical warfare molecules and snare and lock them in.
2006 J. Byrnes Adv. in Sensing with Security Applic. 143 Examples already emerging include smart fabrics for monitoring personal health indicators such as breathing.
smart glasses n. a pair of glasses or spectacles incorporating computer technology, esp. to add information or interactive functionality to what the wearer sees.
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1993 Modesto (Calif.) Bee 13 Oct. g5/5 Other segments [of the program] feature the implantation of an artificial heart, and 'smart glasses' that help a visually impaired man to see his 7-year-old grandson for the first time.
2014 Daily Tel. 18 June 9/6 The idea of the smart glasses is to give people with poor vision an aid that boosts their awareness of what's around them.
2021 Financial Times (Nexis) 13 Mar. 10 These holograms are not Star Wars-style projections but realistic avatars that we can see through virtual reality headsets or smart glasses so that they appear to be in our room.
smart grid n. a grid, esp. an electricity or water grid (grid n. 8), that has the ability to detect and react to local changes in use or demand with the aid of digital electronics.
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1993 Washington Times 2 Apr. g6/6 Eventually, it [sc. Project Prometheus] hopes to link the entire continental road system into a smart grid.
2003 Wisconsin State Jrnl. (Nexis) 15 Aug. a10 A ‘smart grid’ for electricity transmission.
2009 Austin (Texas) Amer.-Statesman (Nexis) 25 Nov. b7 The proposal includes... 200 in-home smart grid water systems and 200 residential smart grid sprinkler systems.
2012 Press & Jrnl. (Aberdeen) (Nexis) 21 May 18 The transition to this 'smart grid' will cost billions of pounds, but will result in a more efficient and flexible grid.
smart gun n. a gun incorporating technology that renders it capable of seemingly intelligent action; spec. one that can be fired only by an authorized user.
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1986 Los Angeles Times 13 July (Calendar) 24/4 Director Cameron had worked hard to create the ‘Smart-gun’ that Weaver and others used so frequently.
1998 Guardian 23 Oct. i. 17/2 Several other companies are pursuing different smart gun technologies, including one that depends on recognising a gun owner's fingerprints.
2002 Philadelphia Inquirer 22 Dec. d2/1 A bill awaiting Gov. McGreevey's signature would make New Jersey the first state to require ‘smart gun’ technology.
2010 K. M. Brevard Story of Guns viii. 64 Inventor Michael Recce demonstrated an early model of his ‘smart gun’ with grip recognition technology.
smart highway n. a road for which a central computer uses information from traffic flow or individual vehicles to ensure the most efficient movement of traffic, or to enable some form of road pricing to be implemented; spec. (hypothetically) one that provides for driverless vehicles.
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1980 Business Week 10 Nov. 96 The coming impact of microelectronics... 1990–2000... ‘Smart’ highways for semi-automated driving enter early development.
1993 Fortune 8 Feb. 96/2 Perhaps the most attractive of the new ideas is smart highways.
2011 Austral. Financial Rev. (Nexis) 5 Sept. 43 Hold-ups in crucial government infrastructure projects to build smart highways are causing delays.
smart material n. any of various artificial materials designed to respond in a particular way when exposed to some external environmental stimulus, such as heat.
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1989 C. A. Rogers (title) Smart materials, structures, and mathematical issues.
1999 G. Stix & M. Lacob Who gives Gigabyte? viii. 199 The smart materials that have found their way into the widest range of devices are piezoelectric ceramics.
2000 Cutting Edge: Encycl. Adv. Technol. 259/1 Chromogenic materials are smart materials that vary in transparency according to the degree of illumination, temperature, or electric voltage to which they are exposed.
2012 Toronto Star (Nexis) 1 Mar. v. 6 Khan discovered he could embed several memories in the same smart material, enabling it to remember a series of shapes when exposed to different temperatures.
smart meter n. any of various meters capable of some independent action or which incorporate a microprocessor; esp. an electricity or (less commonly) gas meter capable of transmitting readings to a utility company at regular intervals.
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1974 L. Jacobs How to take Great Pictures with your SLR v. 80/1 This type of smart meter is called center-weighted because it assigns more ‘weight’ to center brightnesses when figuring exposure settings.
1993 CIO Aug. 94/2 The utility will be able to install smart meters with microchips that will inform customers how much electricity each appliance uses.
2011 Times (Nexis) 30 June 43 Smart meters give realtime digital information on how much electricity and gas is being used.
smart mob n. a large group of people organized by means of mobile phones or other wireless devices who assemble together or act collectively, typically for political purposes; cf. flash mob n.2A term coined by U.S. critic Howard Rheingold (b. 1947).Although a distinction is usually made between smart mob and flash mob, the two terms are sometimes used interchangeably.
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2002 H. Rheingold Smart Mobs p. xii Smart mobs consist of people who are able to act in concert even if they don't know each other.
2003 Time 10 Mar. 53/1 (heading) Day of the Smart Mobs... They toppled a President..and now have their sights on stopping a war.
2011 E. Morozov Net Delusion ix. 254 Jefferson..was not persuaded by the absolute goodness of the ‘smart mobs,’ a fancy term to describe social groups that have been organized spontaneously, usually with the help of technology.
smart quotes n. Computing quotation marks in text which are automatically interpreted and displayed as opening or closing marks rather than as identical straight quotation marks, despite being keyed in the same way; (also) a software feature enabling this; also in singular, esp. with reference to an apostrophe automatically displayed in a form resembling a closing quotation mark.
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1987 MacUser June 128/1 MiniWriter even has a feature called ‘Smart Quotes’ that inserts a proper left or right typographer's quote into your text when you key in a ‘neuter’ quote.
2002 P. Baines & A. Haslam Type & Typogr. vi. 163/2 Apostrophe... The correct character (sometimes known as a ‘smart quote’) should always be used, not a prime.
2010 TECHWEB (Nexis) 18 Aug. The company added the ability to convert default smart quotes into straight quotes using a key command.
smart road n. = smart highway n.
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1987 Business Wire (Nexis) 2 June Progress will be slow, but what can help is ‘smart cars and smart roads’. Rothery explained that auto companies now have the technology to convert cars into extremely intelligent vehicles with the use of computers and Geo-satellite systems.
1990 Sci. Amer. (U.K. ed.) May 65/1 Much of the added computing power will probably get plowed into new technology for smart cars and smart roads.
2012 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 6 Apr. 1 In the cities they will run on smart roads also embedded with sensors which keep them a safe distance apart at a safe speed.
smart tag n. a tag with an embedded radio-frequency identification device, which is attached to or inserted in something for the purpose of tracking it remotely or for storing data about it; cf. RFID n.
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1991 Age (Melbourne) 31 Jan. 19/8 ‘Smart’ tags that identify cargo containers and their contents both in storage and in transit.
2002 CIO 15 Oct. 92/3 Grocery retailers are eyeing radio frequency identification, or RFID, a ‘smart tag’ technology that could replace 30-year-old bar codes.
2011 Times of India (Nexis) 6 June The Maharashtra Livestock Development Board..plans to take up the work of implanting microchips (smart tags) on the ear or suitable body parts of the cattle.
smartwatch n. (originally) any of various watches equipped with a microchip that extends its functionality beyond timekeeping; (now usually) a mobile telecommunications device designed to be worn on the wrist, typically with a touch screen display and the ability to connect to a smartphone.
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1996 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 2 July (Computers section) 6 Most people have heard of smart cards, but smart watches? Using a new smart watch developed by Swatch and SkiData, visitors to 18 ski resorts in Europe and the United States can book tourist services.
2003 Associated Press Newswire (Nexis) 8 Jan. Touting an array of ‘smart’ watches and portable video players, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates is offering further evidence that the world's largest software company sees slick consumer gadgets as computing's future.
2013 Chron.-Telegram (Elyria, Ohio) 8 Mar. c9/4 One of the smartwatch's biggest selling points is that it can alert you to calls, texts and emails you otherwise might have missed.
2014 Daily Tel. 7 July (Business section) 3/1 Heavy users of smartwatches can develop a ‘phantom watch’ mentality, frequently checking their bare wrist even when they are not wearing the device.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online December 2022).

smartv.1

Brit. /smɑːt/, U.S. /smɑrt/
Forms: Old English smeortan, early Middle English smeorte (chiefly south-west midlands), early Middle English smurte (south-western), Middle English smert, Middle English smerte, Middle English smertt, Middle English smirte, Middle English–1600s smarte, Middle English– smart, late Middle English smerth (3rd singular present indicative); Scottish pre-1700 smairt, pre-1700 1700s– smart, pre-1700 1800s smert; Newfoundland 1900s– smert, 1900s– smirt. Also past tense early Middle English smeart (south-east midlands), early Middle English smurte (south-western), Middle English smart, Middle English smerte, Middle English smorte (south-west midlands, plural), Middle English smorten (plural), Middle English smourte (south-west midlands, plural), Middle English (1500s Scottish) smert.
Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.
Etymology: Cognate with West Frisian smerte (weak), Middle Dutch smerten , smarten (strong and weak; Dutch smarten (weak)), Middle Low German smerten , smarten (weak), Old High German smerzan (only attested in present tense; Middle High German smerzen (strong and (rarely) weak), German schmerzen (weak)) < a West Germanic base shown also by smart n.1 and smart adj. Compare ( < Middle Low German smerten or its later reflex) Swedish smärta , Danish smerte . Further etymology uncertain. Perhaps < any of three different Indo-European bases: (i) that of classical Latin mordēre to bite (see mordant adj.); (ii) that of ancient Greek σμερδνός , σμερδαλέος terrible (further etymology unknown); or (iii) that of Lithuanian smelkti (impersonal) to hurt (hence perhaps ultimately < the same base as smeek v.).Form history. In Old English not attested directly, but implied by derivatives showing the present stem of the verb (see quots. OE1, OE2 at sense 1a). The word was evidently a strong verb of Class III, for strong forms comparable to those in Middle Dutch and Middle High German survive in Middle English; compare e.g. 3rd singular past tense forms smart , smeart with Middle Dutch smart , Middle High German smarz . The Old English verb would also have had a regular past tense plural form *smurton and past participle *smorten . These stem forms are probably continued by some of the Middle English past tense forms (smurt- was liable to be spelt smort- to avoid minim confusion). Compare the past tense forms of other verbs historically of Class III, e.g. carve v. However, Middle English smurt- also occurs in the present tense, beside expected smert- ( < Old English smeort- , which shows the reflex of West Germanic e , with breaking), and because the word has a stem-final dental, it can be difficult to distinguish strong past tense forms from weak past tense forms with syncopation of the ending (compare forms of hurt v.). The past tense form smert (which already occurs in early Middle English without final e ) is perhaps originally analogical to the past tense of Class VII strong verbs such as fall v. The Middle English present stem form smirt- (and perhaps also smurt- ) appears to show the reflex of i-mutation of the present stem. This may perhaps go back to Old English forms of the 2nd and 3rd singular present indicative (early West Saxon *smiertst , *smiert ), but compare also forms of smart n.1 The present stem form smart- shows regular later Middle English lowering of e to a before r . Further Old English evidence. It has been suggested that the following Old English gloss of uncertain sense may show a scribal error for (inflected infinitive) *smeortenne :OE Aldhelm Glosses (Brussels 1650) in L. Goossens Old Eng. Glosses of MS Brussels, Royal Libr. 1650 (1974) 241 Arsuros : crematuros, to smorcenne [OE Digby 146 to smorcenne].However, an alternative (and perhaps more likely) suggestion is that the form is a scribal error for *smorgenne or *smorienne (see smore v.). It is also possible that the gloss shows an otherwise unattested verb.
1.
a. intransitive. Of an external agency (as a blow, smoke, etc.) or a wound, etc.: to be a source of sharp pain; to be acutely painful, to sting, to hurt.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > types of pain > suffer or cause type of pain [verb (intransitive)] > smart or sting
smartOE
bite1377
stound1513
urticate1843
the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > types of pain > affect with type of pain [verb (impersonal)] > smart
smartOE
OE [implied in: tr. Orosius Hist. (Tiber.) (1980) i. vii. 25 Gnættas comon..mid fyrsmeortendum bitum [L. ignitas sciniphes] & ægþær ge þa men ge ða nytenu unaablinnendlice piniende wæron. (at smarting adj. 1)].
OE [implied in: Antwerp-London Gloss. (2011) 52 Prurigo, smertung. (at smarting n.1)].
a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 83 (MED) Win makeð wunde smerte.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 176 Hwile þet ȝihchunge lest hit þuncheð god to grinden [read gnudden or gnuden]. ach þer efter me feleð hit bitterliche smeorten.
c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) l. 2647 Þe dint bigan ful sore to smerte.
c1405 (c1375) G. Chaucer Monk's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 627 Thogh hise deedly woundes so sore smerte His mantel ouer his hipes caste he.
c1450 (c1400) Sowdon of Babylon (1881) l. 1544 Here woundis sore did smerte.
1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. N3 They basted him with a mixture..which smarted to the very soule of him.
1683 I. Walton Chalkhill's Thealma & Clearchus i. 54 Night drew on And his Wounds smarted: no Chirurgeon Was near at hand to bind them up.
1772 T. Bridges Burlesque Transl. Homer (rev. ed.) xi. 491 Ajax gave him two such spankers, They smarted worse than nodes and shankers.
1804 S. Rowson Misc. Poems 106 It smarts, dear, don't it? how can you endure it? Here's some Pomade divine, to heal and cure it.
1899 S. Levett-Yeats Heart of Denise 212 There was a broad pink circle, as large as a florin, around the mark of the trident, and it smarted and burned as the sting of a wasp.
1922 H. Quick Vandemark's Folly ii. 12 I began bawling as soon as the captain commenced putting arnica on my back—partly because it smarted so, and partly because he was so very gentle about it.
1975 W. C. Davis Battle of New Market (1983) vi. 64 His painful but slight wound smarting as he rode.
2011 C. Paolini Inheritance 92 Wyrden landed four touches in quick succession... The blows smarted.
b. intransitive. Of words, an action, etc.: to cause mental pain or anguish; to be hurtful.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > cause of mental pain or suffering > be painful or distressing to a person [verb (intransitive)]
to claw, rub, hit on the gallc1386
smarta1400
rankle1735
to play hell (with)1750
gnaw1859
a1400 Psalter (Vesp.) lxv. 6 in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1896) II. 195 His eghen on genge bihald þai: Þat smert [v.r. smarten; L exasperant], noght vphouen al In þam-seluen be þai sal.
a1425 (a1400) Prick of Conscience (Galba & Harl.) (1863) l. 1317 (MED) Yhit es happe of welthe to drede mare Þan chaunce of angre, þat smertes sare.
a1500 in F. J. Furnivall Hymns to Virgin & Christ (1867) 126 Sche answerd me schortly with wordys þat smartyd.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. ccxxviiiv Besyde this angre, ther came the next daye another corsey, that smarted a littell sorer.
1847 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) xlv. 446 He saw that this..rankled and smarted in her haughty breast, like a poisoned arrow.
1900 Country Life Illustr. 17 Mar. 330/1 These idle words smarted worse than my wound.
1982 Field & Stream Mar. 194/1 ‘We all suffer from t'tyranny of our concepts.’ Oh, that smarts! Here he thinks he must give me some high-flying rhetoric.
2005 M. Lewycka Short Hist. Tractors in Ukrainian vi. 70 ‘Neither you nor I are going to look after him in his old age, are we?’ (Best to get it out into the open, even though the bluntness of it smarts.)
c. intransitive. To be heavy or hard upon a person. Obsolete.
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the world > action or operation > adversity > be in adversity [verb (intransitive)] > be oppressed > oppress or put stress on
instand1382
peisea1450
to sit on (upon or in) one's skirts1546
smart1601
pinch1685
1601 W. Cornwallis Ess. II. xxxvi. sig. Y8 This smarted doubly vpon the taxed people.
2. transitive. To cause (physical or mental) pain to; to hurt, sting, be painful to.In early use often in impersonal construction with personal object.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > cause of mental pain or suffering > cause mental pain or suffering to [verb (transitive)]
heavyc897
pineeOE
aileOE
sorryeOE
traya1000
sorrowOE
to work (also do) (a person) woeOE
angerc1175
smarta1200
to work, bake, brew balec1200
derve?c1225
grieve?c1225
sitc1225
sweam?c1225
gnawc1230
sughc1230
troublec1230
aggrievea1325
to think sweama1325
unframea1325
anguish1340
teen1340
sowa1352
distrainc1374
to-troublea1382
strain1382
unglad1390
afflicta1393
paina1393
distressa1400
hita1400
sorea1400
assayc1400
remordc1400
temptc1400
to sit (or set) one sorec1420
overthrow?a1425
visit1424
labour1437
passionc1470
arraya1500
constraina1500
misgrievea1500
attempt1525
exagitate1532
to wring to the worse1542
toil1549
lament1580
adolorate1598
rankle1659
try1702
to pass over ——1790
upset1805
to touch (also get, catch, etc.) (a person) on the raw1823
to put (a person) through it1855
bludgeon1888
to get to ——1904
to put through the hoop(s)1919
the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > types of pain > affect with type of pain [verb (transitive)] > affect with smart or sting
smarta1200
sting?1615
mordicate1651
punge1657
wasp1846
nettle1858
a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 21 (MED) Þo ðe time cam swo þat hire ne oc ne ne smeart.
c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 168 Nis þing i þe worlde þet smeorteð him sarre. þen deð swuch beatunge.
c1300 St. Patrick's Purgatory (Laud) l. 217 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 206 He criede a-non to ihesu crist þo him smert so sore.
c1390 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Vernon) (1867) A. iii. l. 161 For [þe] pore may haue no pouwer to playne, þauȝ hem smerte.
?c1400 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (BL Add. 10340) (1868) ii. pr. iv. l. 1011 Þis is a þing þat gretly smertiþ me whan it remembreþ me.
a1450 Generides (Pierpont Morgan) (1865) l. 6075 Mi woundes smert me so sore, With you may I fight nomore.
a1475 (a1400) in Neuphilol. Mitteilungen (1973) 74 244 (MED) Mercy..I cry yin ore; Let me scape, me smertyt sore.
1558 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Seuen First Bks. Eneidos ii. 30 Than pardon we for pity gaue, this wayling smartes us so.
c1590 J. Stewart Poems (1913) 204 That schrink of sorrow nether suerwe nor smart The Interpryse of thy magnanime hart.
1619 T. Adams Faiths Encovragement in Happines of Church 416 A Goad, that pricks the skin, and smarts the flesh; Affliction.
1787 Minor iii. viii. 188 My wound..still continued to smart me.
1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 505 It is better that the effluvium be so strong as to smart the eyes.
1884 J. Burroughs Locusts & Wild Honey (new ed.) 109 There was not enough moisture in the air to take the sting out of the smoke, and it smarted the nose.
1959 D. Hewett Bobbin Up xvi. 191 The sour taste of the beer smarted his throat.
1987 W. Hagelund Whalers no More i. 21 His voice smarted my pride with its displeasure at my unnautical report.
2005 J. Novakovich Infidelities 149 The cold moist air and granulated snow smarted his face and chilled his ears.
3.
a. intransitive. To feel sharp pain or distress (in later use esp. with a stinging pain); to suffer acutely or severely. Also figurative.Frequently with prepositions, as at, from, under, with, etc.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > suffer mental pain [verb (intransitive)]
tholec897
throwOE
smarta1200
pinea1225
to well in woea1350
painc1350
labourc1450
to fight sore at heart1490
tear1666
the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > types of pain > suffer or cause type of pain [verb (intransitive)] > smart or sting > suffer smarting or stinging
smarta1200
sting1847
swithe1876
swither1876
a1200 (?OE) MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 207 Ȝif he understant þat he habbe ofte agilt..þenne wile his heorte aken and smerten.
c1300 St. Michael (Laud) l. 783 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 322 (MED) Þe bodie..þat in strong Anguysche deth smeorte [c1300 Harl. smurte].
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. vii. xv. 359 Smoke þat dymmeþ iȝen and makeþ hem smerte.
c1422 T. Hoccleve Dialogus (Durh.) l. 650 in Minor Poems (1970) i. 133 Smertith the fool for lak of good auys.
c1500 (?a1437) Kingis Quair (1939) viii (MED) Myn eyne gan to smert for studying.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 722/1 If thou ytche, care nat, but if thou smarte, beware.
1568 A. Scott Poems (1896) xxiv. 17 I speik expart, suppois I smart.
1609 Bp. J. Hall Passion-serm. 56 Thou strikest; Christ Iesus smarteth, and will reuenge.
1670 C. Cotton tr. G. Girard Hist. Life Duke of Espernon ii. viii. 371 Countreys that yet smarted with the last years War.
a1732 F. Atterbury Serm. Several Occas. (1734) I. 138 What Security have We, that, abusing and despising the same Mercies, we shall not smart under the same Judgments?
1782 F. Burney Cecilia II. iv. vi. 202 When I got home my feet were all blisters. You have no idea how they smarted.
1787 R. Burns Poems (new ed.) 234 I..justly smart beneath his sin-avenging rod.
1842 Bentley's Misc. May 500 With slubbered face, and shoulders smarting from the stripes, [he] presented himself before his mother.
1885 W. T. Hornaday Two Years in Jungle xxiii. 268 The salt perspiration ran into my eyes and caused them to smart.
1921 J. Galsworthy To Let v. 167 In a country smarting from officialism he felt that he had a strong case.
1954 R. Sutcliff Eagle of Ninth xiii. 138 The blue peat-smoke caught him by the throat and made his eyes smart.
1986 D. Hogan New Shirt ii. 66 His imagination smarted at the thought of crossroad dances which revealed kneecaps as smudged red as cheeks on a winter's day.
2003 Independent 30 Aug. (Mag.) 41/1 If your legs are still shaking and your seat is still smarting from the distant memory of your last bicycle ride, never fear.
b. intransitive. To bear the penalty or suffer severely for an offence, misdemeanour, etc.
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society > authority > punishment > [verb (intransitive)] > receive punishment > be punished severely
to buy the bargain dear1352
smart1534
sweata1625
to nap it1699
to get it1805
to catch or get Jesse1839
to get (also catch, take) it in the neck1881
to get beans1893
to get (also do) the book1928
1534 N. Udall Floures for Latine Spekynge gathered oute of Terence f. 175 Syrus shall aby on the bare skynne for my cause, or I shall cause Syrus bare rybbes to smarte for hit.
1579 W. Fulke Confut. Treat. N. Sander in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 585 Balthasar abused the holy vessels, he smarted for it.
1634 T. Heywood Mayden-head well Lost i. i. sig. B1v I shall ne're smart for't, what is't to me?
1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. 78 Away, I say, else I'll make you smart for it.
1747 S. Richardson Clarissa I. xxxii. 219 Offences against warning ought to be smarted for.
1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) ii. 7 ‘You shall smart for this,’ gasped Mr. Pickwick.
1884 Sat. Rev. 5 July 5/2 He has done us a wrong, and should be made to smart for it.
1912 Boys' Life June 17/2 We go through this together, Teddy, and, if we win, we win, and, if we lose—why, then someone will have to smart for it!
1959 G. Davies Early Stuarts 1603–60 (ed. 2) xi. 311 If the bride's dress went beyond what the expected statute permitted, and her husband's purse was made to smart for it, ‘let him thank himself, not blame the dotage of his wife's mother.’
1997 P. Volsky White Tribunal i. 20 They had broken their own curfew, and would smart for it, should Ravnar find out.
c. intransitive. Of a person: to feel upset and annoyed, esp. as a result of the action of another. Now chiefly as present participle.
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1625 B. V. Run-awyaes Answer sig. A3 To make him smart a little, thus print wee our Answere to those bold affronts, by which he does challenge vs.
1767 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy IX. xxiv. 290 I so smarted at the very idea of it, that I swore I would set up for Wisdom and utter grave sentences the rest of my days.
1797 M. Robinson Walsingham III. lvii. 149 His vanquished antagonist..can laugh at the victor, at the same moment that he smarts from his malevolence.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. vii. 200 The just indignation of the public was inflamed by many who were smarting from his ridicule.
1910 H. H. Richardson Getting of Wisdom xiv. 143 Bob, still smarting from his father's banter, was inclined to be stand-offish.
1941 W. J. Cash Mind of South i. i. 3 Some wealthy bourgeois, smarting under the snubs of a haughty aristocracy and fancying himself in the role of a princeling in the wilderness.
1955 Manch. Guardian 24 Mar. 8/2 Some people in France have smarted at the blunt things that statesmen have said about their country.
2010 New Yorker 25 Oct. 81/2 Moynihan was still smarting from the response, four years earlier, to ‘The Negro Family: The Case for National Action’.
4. transitive. To atone for (an offence) by suffering. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
society > morality > virtue > righteousness or rectitude > reform, amendment, or correction > atonement > atone for [verb (transitive)] > by suffering
coupc1300
quita1400
smarta1425
expiate1665
a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer Romaunt Rose (Hunterian) (1891) l. 7057 He shal in prisoun dye But if he wole..smerten that that he hath do.
c1450 C. d'Orleans Poems (1941) 138 (MED) A Wel myn hert..ye wille aby If that ye pursew moche my rakil ey To don vs bothe to smert yowre towchis nyse.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

smartv.2

Brit. /smɑːt/, U.S. /smɑrt/
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: smart adj.
Etymology: < smart adj. Compare smarten v.
colloquial.
1. With up.
a. transitive. To make smart or spruce; to improve in appearance or style; = smarten v. 2a.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautify [verb (transitive)] > improve in appearance
cheer1560
tickle1567
smudge1589
perk1590
smug1598
pamper1611
smart1780
smarten1788
primp1801
to fig up1872
dude1899
posh1919
1780 H. Wickham Let. 21 June in E. A. Robertson Spanish Town Papers (1959) ii. 46 I am very much obliged to you for our unexpected supplys which has smarted Us up nicely it would give you great pleasure to see the little Boys drest.
1813 Polyanthos May 79 I smarted myself up a little, and was thought quite the thing at our parish club.
1819 R. Hunt Notes Visit Ohio in Autumnal Fruits & Flowers (1843) 42 Here we stayed all night, had the carriage washed, greased and smarted up.
1867 W. D. Howells Venetian Life (ed. 2) vii. 97 Rooms in a tumble-down old palace, where the walls, shamelessly smarted up with coarse paper, crumble at your touch.
1908 Archit. Rec. 13 331/2 The architectural injury too often wrought in ‘smarting up’ the churches of old villages.
1983 M. M. R. Khan Hidden Selves (1989) iv. 79 The..ranch-hands..smarted up the saddlery without really working at it.
b. intransitive. To make oneself smart or spruce; to improve one's appearance. Also occasionally: to become smart. Cf. smarten v. 2c. Now rare.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautify (the person) [verb (intransitive)]
trick?1532
mundify1568
prune1568
to finify it1586
prink1591
brisk1592
tiff1700
fetish1735
beautify1777
adonize1781
fix1783
smart1794
smarten1813
titivate1835
primp1887
doll1916
1794 M. Darwall Poems I. 88 I did not smart up in my holiday clothes To sit here tweedle tweedle.
1837 J. B. Derby Musings of Recluse 17 One night he smarted up, Put on his best blue coat and dickey.
1853 Knickerbocker Sept. 275 [They] remarked that Mr. Blimmer has ‘smarted up’; by which expression they make graceful allusion to a new black coat, and to very becoming plaids.
1884 Cleveland (Ohio) Herald 17 Feb. 10/3 The old city is smarting up wonderfully with fresh paint.
1906 Overland Monthly Apr. 359/1 In..one such [tavern] hangs forth the weather-beaten sign ‘2d to wash face and smart up’.
2.
a. transitive. With out of. To use cunning or plausible deception to deprive (a person) of something. rare.
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1796 F. Burney Camilla III. vi. vi. 251 I can serve you as I did another gentleman once before, that I smarted out of a good ten pound out of his pocket.
1964 R. Phares Bible in Pocket (1971) ix. 125 Graves did not get the cattle, the Methodist explanation being that the opposition ‘smarted’ him out of them, claiming that the bond was defective.
b. transitive. U.S. To make (one's way) by cunning or shrewdness out of (also into, etc.) a situation or position.
ΚΠ
1922 Mansfield (Ohio) News 7 July 10/1 When she was cornered, she vamped or smarted her way out.
1933 Chicago Defender 30 Sept. 5/2 He..bluffed, lucked, and ‘smarted’ his way into power.
1994 T. Clancy Debt of Honor xxxi. 487 The takedown was pretty cute, but Secretary Fiedler here might have smarted his way out of that with our help.
2006 C. W. Henderson Jungle Rules i. 5 He smarted his way into airframe mechanics' school and slid downhill from there.
3. With up. Originally and chiefly U.S.
a. intransitive. To become more shrewd, wise, intelligent, or aware; to ‘wise up’. Cf. smarten v. 1b.
ΚΠ
1888 Atlantic Monthly Jan. 42/1 Gittin' silver spoons for her now she's 'most dead. He'd better have smarted up an' helped her more while she was well.
1969 Sunday Post Crescent (Appleton, Wisconsin) 25 May v. 10/2 Once she had been caught by a particular method, she would smart up and be wary of its use the next time.
2009 V. C. Andrews Delia's Gift 65 He's finally smarted up... Too late to help himself, I'm afraid.
b. transitive. To make more shrewd, intelligent, or aware; esp. to give (a person) information about a particular subject or situation, to inform. Cf. smarten v. 1a.
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the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > make more intelligent [verb (transitive)]
opena1350
smart1926
1926 D. Hammett in Black Mask Feb. 64/2 Remember, I got no idea what this is all about... If you're counting on me talking, too, you'd better smart me up.
1936 L. Hughes & A. Bontemps When Jack Hollers (typescript) ii. 11 White skin ain't smarted him up a bit.
1949 Capital Times (Madison, Wisconsin) 6 Oct. (Sports section) 21/4 Maybe a few of them have learned..just where they rate. If they haven't, somebody should smart them up but quick.
1998 W. N. Eskridge & S. V. Levinson Constit. Stupidities, Constit. Trag. xxii. 107 A number of potential stupidities have been smarted up by highly dynamic interpretation.
2004 New York Post (Nexis) 18 Jan. 74 Being broke and ignored smarted you up.
4. intransitive. With off. Originally and chiefly U.S. To talk to or answer someone in an impertinent or rude manner; to be witty at someone else's expense. Also transitive with direct speech as object.
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1902 Hutchinson (Kansas) Daily News 28 May 2/2 A tendency people have to smart off at the expense of those who are suffering.
1974 K. C. Constantine Blank Page 78 He smarted off at somebody a lot younger and a lot bigger.
1996 N.Y. Times 12 May e7/2 If they smarted off to him, he'd call the sheriff.
2004 M. J. Bryant Beaming Light ii. 28 ‘Spare me the details, please,’ Judy smarted off.

Derivatives

ˈsmarted-up adj. originally and chiefly U.S. that has been smarted up (in senses 1 and 3 of the verb); cf. smartened adj. at smarten v. Derivatives.
ΚΠ
1832 Juvenile Misc. Mar. 8 You seem to be mighty brisk, and smarted up.
1966 Appleton (Wisconsin) Post Crescent 21 Dec. b3/2 These smarted-up longjohns..retail in a variety of designs.
2012 Weekly Standard 21 May 38/2 Damsels doesn't feel like mere smarted-up escapism. None of Stillman's films feels that way.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

smartadv.

Brit. /smɑːt/, U.S. /smɑrt/
Forms: Middle English smarte, Middle English smert, Middle English smerte, Middle English smerþe, Middle English– smart.
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: smart adj.
Etymology: < smart adj. Compare earlier smartly adv.
Chiefly colloquial in later use.
= smartly adv. (in various senses).
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > [adverb] > with vigour or intensity of operation or effect
swithlyc888
mightilyeOE
strongeOE
fastlyOE
stronglyOE
smartlyc1225
smartc1300
mightlya1393
freshlyc1425
almightily1609
feckfullya1614
shrewly1707
vivaciouslya1711
keenly1837
drivingly1842
drastically1850
incisively1871
the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > [adverb] > briskly or actively
quiverlyOE
smartc1300
smartlyc1300
spacklya1350
merrilyc1390
sprackly1393
livelyc1425
activelya1500
busilya1513
allegrement1608
alacriously1609
nippily1650
briskly1665
alertly1725
up and doing1817
pert1859
brash1884
stirringly1889
bobbishly1936
the world > action or operation > manner of action > rapidity or speed of action or operation > [adverb] > quickly or promptly
ratheeOE
rathelyeOE
radlyOE
yareOE
timelyOE
belivec1175
belivesc1275
hastivelyc1300
prestc1300
smartc1300
smartlyc1300
prestly1340
spacklya1350
pertlya1375
redelya1375
redlya1375
yeplya1375
readilyc1390
yarelya1400–50
hasty?a1425
promptly1490
hastyfullyc1500
snackly1728
snack1739
snaply1768
in quick sticks (also in a quick stick)1835
pronto1892
quick smart1955
snappily1981
the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > [adverb] > swiftly and briskly
sharplya1000
smartc1300
smartlyc1300
spackc1330
wightlyc1330
spacklya1350
swipperly?a1400
wighta1400
nimblyc1450
quiverly1519
roundly1548
nimble1568
bragly1579
snap1583
yarelya1616
briskly1665
smartish1839
nippily1932
snappingly1976
the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [adverb] > smartly
smartly1748
smartish1770
smart1771
flashly1812
dashingly1837
nattily1849
nobbily1859
stylishly1879
chicly1905
ritzily1925
snappily1936
c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) l. 215 Þe king..dede him sore swinge, And wit hondes smerte dinge.
c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xi. l. 426 Þere smitte no þinge so smerte ne smelleth so soure.
c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) l. 5515 Þan made he smythis to gaa smert & smethe him a chaiere.
a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 180 Thes newely come me shale moche more Smertre assayle.
1581 A. Hall tr. Homer 10 Bks. Iliades vi. 84 His launce he threw so smart, That through he thirlde his buckler quite.
1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iii. 128 Smarter then Racquets in a Court re-ierk Balls 'gainst the Walls of the black-boorded house.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 65 The Stars shine smarter . View more context for this quotation
1771 Hist. Sir William Harrington I. xvi. 149 Dressed as smart as my close mourning would permit me.
1794 Ld. Nelson Let. 19 July in Dispatches & Lett. (1844) I. 449 The Enemy have fired smart since daylight.
1811 J. Austen Sense & Sensibility I. xxi. 289 For my part, I think they are vastly agreeable, provided they dress smart and behave civil.
1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin I. ii. 28 He'd..put him to hoeing and digging, and ‘see if he'd step about so smart’.
1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 29 Nov. 3/1 It is better for tenants to be compelled to pay up smart than to allow them to heap up a great burden of arrears.
1926 D. Hammett in Black Mask Feb. 66/1 I talk smart, and bingo! First thing you know she's propositioning me.
1982 S. Paretsky Indemnity Only iv. 43 Don't talk smart with me.
1993 Kiplinger's Personal Finance Mag. June 46/2 Upwardly mobile women want to dress smart.
2007 New Yorker 6 Aug. 32/3 A journalist asks Bubba how difficult it is for him to forgo his passion for his driver and in order to play it smart.

Compounds

Forming adjectives with present participles, as smart-dressing, smart-sailing, smart-trotting, etc., and past participles, as smart-built, smart-dressed, etc.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > types of pain > [adverb] > smarting or stinging
sharplya1023
smart1624
sharp1635
stingingly1667
smartingly1703
bitingly1874
1624 J. Gee Foot out of Snare App. 114 A song of the same smart-yerking tune.
1632 J. Hayward in tr. G. F. Biondi Eromena Transl. to Rdr. sig. A4v Fenced..with sharp-pointed brambles and smart-stinging briers.
1753 A. Murphy Gray's Inn Jrnl. 17 Mar. 128 A laced Coat, and smart-cocked Hat.
1822 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 21/2 A neat, airy, smart-sailing cutter.
1842 W. M. Thackeray Irish Sketch-bk. xiv. 159 A very good, neat-looking, smart-trotting, chestnut horse.
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 379/2 Smart-dressing servant-maids, perhaps, are my best customers.
1884 D. Pae Eustace 97 We want a smart-built craft like yon.
1918 W. Wood Elizabethan Sea-dogs vi. 114 The pinnaces were kept till a suitable, smart-sailing Spanish craft was found, boarded, and captured to replace them.
1984 Guardian 2 July 8/1 You see really smart dressed people, not a hair out of place.
2010 D. Lanois Soul Mining i. 8 My dad was a greaseball, as were his friends. They were the smart-dressing kind of greaseballs—no jeans.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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