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单词 smug
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smugn.1

Etymology: Of obscure origin: compare smuggy adj.
Obsolete.
A blacksmith.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific materials > metalworker > [noun] > ironworker or blacksmith
ironsmithOE
blacksmith1248
smithy man1308
ferrerc1380
ironworkerc1450
vulcanist?1586
smug1600
Vulcan1603
fireworker1608
iron man1610
roughneck1901
1600–9 S. Rowlands Knaue of Clubbes (Percy Soc.) 34 A smug of Vulcan's forging trade.
1629 T. Dekker Londons Tempe 205 Worke my fine Smugges.
1709 E. Ward Writings IV. 133 ‘You're an impudent slut,’ cries the smug at his bellows.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

smugn.2

Brit. /smʌɡ/, U.S. /sməɡ/
Etymology: < smug adj.Smug (and Sir Smug) is used as a suggestive personal name by Cowper Hope 413 and 438.
1. University slang. A quiet hard-working student.
ΘΚΠ
society > education > learning > learner > college or university student > [noun] > hard-working student
reading man1684
smug1882
grind1893
keener1973
1882 Daily News 23 Mar. 4/7 A ‘smug’ was always unpopular, but all unpopular persons were not smugs. The quiet smug was generally not a rich man.
1884 Radford in Birrell Obiter Dicta 212 He had many friends at Clement's Inn who were not smugs, nor, indeed, reading men in any sense.
in extended use.1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 17 May 1/1 The Conservative free and easy voters—unlike the Liberal smugs— ‘would have their holidays’.
2. A smug or self-satisfied person.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > [noun] > conscious respectability > person
Pharisee1539
smug1891
1891 Sat. Rev. 13 June 701 The ocean of silly cant which has been poured forth on the occasion by smugs and prigs.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

smugadj.

Brit. /smʌɡ/, U.S. /sməɡ/
Forms: Also 1500s smogue, smoog, 1500s–1600s smugg(e.
Etymology: Of doubtful origin; the form is against its being < Low German smuk (whence Danish smuk, Swedish smukk, German schmuck) pretty, nice, as the change of k to g would be very irregular.
1.
a. Of male persons: Trim, neat, spruce, smart; in later use, having a self-satisfied, conceited, or consciously respectable air.The word has been in very common use from the 16th cent., and the earlier sense shades imperceptibly into the later, so that quotations cannot be separated.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pleasure > contentment or satisfaction > self-satisfaction > [adjective]
smug1551
fat1598
self-contented1631
self-pleased1633
self-satisfied1653
self-contenta1656
self-complacent1736
self-gratulating1755
complacent1767
well1773
self-congratulatory1798
comfortable1856
paddy1865
Podsnappian1866
cosy1927
the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > pleasing appearance > [adjective] > neat or trim > specifically of men
smug1551
smudge1596
the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > [adjective] > consciously respectable
self-righteous?1575
Pharisaica1618
wholehearteda1628
smug1669
pious1683
righteous1809
1551 R. Robinson tr. T. More Vtopia sig. Aiiiv They be so smugge & smoethe, that they haue not somuch as one heare of an honest man.
1581 B. Rich Farewell Militarie Profession K j The Duke..perceiuyng him to bee a proper smogue yong man, gaue hym entertainment.
1613 T. Heywood Brazen Age ii. iv I was when I was borne A pretty smug knaue.
1669 S. Pepys Diary 28 Mar. (1976) IX. 500 To the office with Tom, who looks mighty smug upon his marriage.
1706 R. Estcourt Fair Example v. i Thou hast a handsom smug Neighbour that I believe knows her as well.
?1740 E. Montagu Let. (1825) I. 76 He is a patrician too, and a smugger gentleman than Livy, or any of his heroes.
1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II i. lxix. 42 Then thy spruce citizen, wash'd artizan, And smug apprentice gulp their weekly air.
1859 W. M. Thackeray Virginians II. 337 A smug officer of the United States Government.
1884 J. Sharman Cursory Hist. Swearing i. 2 The..smug undertakers of the neighbouring Soho.
b. Of women or girls. (Common c1590–1650 in the older sense of the word.)
ΚΠ
1590 R. Greene Neuer too Late ii. sig. G4v Now Gods blessing on thy heart (quoth Callena) for louing such a smugge lasse.
1652 O. Felltham Char. Low-Countries 15 As smug, as a Lady that hath newly lockt up her colours, and laid by her Irons.
1677 T. Otway Cheats of Scapin i. i, in Titus & Berenice sig. F She is indeed a good smug Lass.
1702 R. Steele Funeral iii. 41 Oh that Smugg old Woman! there's no enduring her affectation of Youth.
2. Of the face (person, etc.): Smooth, sleek; also, in later use = sense 5.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > pleasing appearance > [adjective] > neat or trim > sleek
slick?a1366
smug1582
sleek1829
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis ii. 35 His tayle smoog [L. lubrica] thirling, slyke breast to Titan vpheauing.
1592 J. Lyly Midas iv. i Cross-gartred Swaines, & Dairie girles, With faces smug, and round as Pearles.
1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 21 A slicke forhead, a smugg countenaunce.
1702 C. Beaumont J. Beaumont's Psyche (new ed.) vi. iv. 70 Those dangerous Sirens whose smug maiden face Is ugly mortal Treason's burnish'd Glass.
1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 428. ⁋1 The Instrument which is to make your Visage less horrid and your Person more smug.
1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Odyssey in Iliad & Odyssey II. xv. 404 Sleek their heads And smug their countenances.
1852 W. M. Thackeray Henry Esmond I. x. 233 It was edifying to behold him, fresh shaved, and with smug face, singing out ‘Amen!’
1892 M. Oliphant Hist. Sketch Queen Anne (1894) v. 237 Jeremy Bentham, in whose smug countenance Mill divined unspoken offences.
3. Of things: Smooth, clean, neat, trim, or tidy; in later use, having an appearance suggestive of complacency or respectability.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > [adjective] > clean and tidy
smug1598
polite1602
tidy1706
tosh1776
tidy-looking1825
speck and span1840
spick and span1846
toshy1856
spick1882
the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > pleasing appearance > [adjective] > neat or trim
netc1330
pertc1330
cleanc1386
nicec1400
picked?c1425
dapperc1440
feata1471
gim1513
trig1513
well-trimmedc1513
trick1533
smirk1534
tricksy1552
neat1559
netty1573
deft1579
primpc1590
briska1593
smug1598
spruce1598
sprink1602
terse1602
compt1632
nitle1673
sprig1675
snod1691
tight1697
smugged1706
snug1714
pensy1718
fitty1746
jemmy1751
sprucy1774
smartc1778
natty1785
spry1806
perjink1808
soigné1821
nutty1823
toiletted1823
taut1829
spick and span1846
spicy1846
groomed1853
spiffy1853
well-groomed1865
bandboxy1870
perjinkity1880
spick-span1888
bandbox1916
tiddly1925
whip-smart1937
spit and polish1950
spit-and-polished1977
1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 iii. i. 99 The smug and siluer Trent. View more context for this quotation
1603 T. Dekker 1603: Wonderfull Yeare sig. B1 The skie..lookt smug and smoothe, and had not so much as a wart sticking on her face.
1620 G. Markham Farewell to Husbandry (1668) ii. xviii. 88 The Come..falls away and leaves the corn clean and smug of itself.
1777 F. Burney Early Diary, Jrnls. Putting on clean linnen, a tidy gown, and smug cap.
1828 T. De Quincey Elements Rhetoric in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 879/1 The smug and scanty draperies of his style.
1872 J. Hatton Mem. Window II. 262 To them, the smug signboards have been coffin plates.
4. Of language: Smooth, neat. Obsolete.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > elegance > [adjective] > neat
neat1586
smug1607
featy1621
terse1777
1607 T. Walkington Optick Glasse 129 A smug neate stile,..vernished phrases.
1682 Annot. on Glanvill 184 That trim and smug saying.
1702 C. Beaumont J. Beaumont's Psyche (new ed.) xvii. clxxxviii. 269 His soft smug words tickle your wanton ear.
5. Indicative of, characterized by, complacency or conscious respectability.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > [adjective] > consciously respectable > characterized by conscious respectability
smug1851
rectitudinous1897
1851 D. Jerrold St. Giles & St. James (new ed.) xi, in Writings I. 103 Human arrogance,..in the smug belief of its own election,..looks upon its fellow..as irrevocably lost.
1859 C. Kingsley Misc. II. 102 Addressing the audience..in the most smug and self-satisfied tone.
1885 Athenæum 30 May 688 A man of smug expediency and polite compromise.

Compounds

smug-faced adj.
ΚΠ
1630 J. Taylor Wks. ii. 252/1 The fourth that entred..Was..a smugfaced furie.
1720 A. Ramsay Wealth (new ed.) 7 Thrice lucky Pimps, or smug fac'd wanton Fair.
1876 M. E. Braddon Joshua Haggard's Daughter II. 2 The smug-faced deacons, in their glossy Sunday coats.
smug-looking adj.
ΚΠ
1895 ‘I. Maclaren’ Beside Bonnie Brier Bush i A trim, smug-looking teacher's house.
smug-skinned adj.
ΚΠ
1575 G. Gascoigne Hearbes in Wks. 173 I coulde haue brought a noble regiment Of smugskinnde Nunnes into my countrey soyle.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

smugv.1

Brit. /smʌɡ/, U.S. /sməɡ/
Forms: Also 1600s smugg(e.
Etymology: < smug adj.
Now rare.
1.
a. transitive. To smarten up (oneself or another, one's appearance, etc.); to make trim or gay. Frequently with up.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautify (the person) [verb (transitive)]
highta1200
atiffe?c1225
tiff?c1225
wyndre?a1366
kembc1386
picka1393
prunec1395
tifta1400
varnishc1405
finea1425
tifflea1425
quaint1484
embuda1529
trick?1532
trick1545
dill1548
tricka1555
prink1573
smug1588
sponge1588
smudge1589
perk1590
primpc1590
sponge1592
tricksy1598
prime1616
sprug1622
briska1625
to sleek upa1625
trickify1678
prim1688
titivate1705
dandify1823
beflounce1824
befop1866
spry1878
lustrify1886
dude1899
doll1916
tart1938
youthify1945
pansy1946
spiv1947
dolly1958
zhuzh1970
(a)
1588 R. Greene Perimedes To Rdr. sig. A3v To enter parlee with his wif, smugd vp in her best apparrell.
1600 T. Dekker Shomakers Holiday sig. E4v Mistresse smugge vp your lookes, on with your best apparell.
a1627 T. Middleton & W. Rowley Spanish Gipsie (1653) iv. sig. Gv Smug up your beetle Browes, none looke grimly.
1672 W. Wycherley Love in Wood iii. ii If she has smugged herself up for me, let me prune and flounce my peruke a little for her.
1751 F. Coventry Hist. Pompey the Little (ed. 2) i. ix. 80 Your..master..has been smugging up his pretty face.
1772 T. Nugent tr. J. F. de Isla Hist. Friar Gerund II. iv. iii. 68 He had smugged himself up, it is evident, with the utmost prolixity.
1888 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. June 788 This worthy tutor, doubtless ‘smugged up’ in his Sunday suit.
(b)1598 E. Guilpin Skialetheia vi. sig. E2 I must craue A little labour to be smug'd, and haue A blessing of Rose-water.1602 J. Marston Hist. Antonio & Mellida iii. sig. E4 I haue put on good cloathes, and smugd my face.1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iv. xvii. 260 But to the Pole annex your Brasen Bason, 'Tis not to smug one then, but to amaze one.1772 T. Nugent tr. J. F. de Isla Hist. Friar Gerund I. ii. v. 362 Our Friar Gerund was so shaved, and combed, and smugged, and spruced, that it was a delight to behold his face.1841 Peter Parley's Ann. 234 Poor old Goody Clackett had little thoughts of ever being smugged..to make a guy on the fifth of November.1841 L. Hunt Seer (1864) ii. 74 All the thoroughfares in towns near London..have wonderfully plucked up, and smugged themselves of late years.
b. absol. To put on a smart or smug expression.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > be affected or act affectedly [verb (intransitive)] > use affected posture or gesture > expression > put on smug expression
smuga1657
a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry V ccxcii, in Poems (1878) IV. 174 The Bloat Face of Rusticitie, Smuggs, looking in A Mirrour.
1719 in T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth V. 74 You smug, you trick, You toss a twire a grin.
2. To smarten up (a thing); to fit up (a room, etc.) neatly or nicely. rare.
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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
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Brandire, to trick, smug, spruce, or trim vp any thing.
1745 H. Walpole Lett. (1846) II. 64 The moment I have smugged up a closet or a dressing-room, I have always warning given me, that my lease is out.
1751 H. Walpole Lett. (1846) II. 399 The chapel is very pretty, and smugged up with tiny pews.
3. [Perhaps a different word: compare smuggle v.2] intransitive. To caress, fondle. dialect. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > love > action of caressing > caress or make a show of affection [verb (intransitive)]
ingle1599
bill1609
smug1813
canoodle1864
mush1919
goo1941
1813 E. Picken Misc. Poems I. 176 We'll cuddle baith amang the fug An' while we hug, an' kiss, an' smug, I'll haud thee firm by ilka lug.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xii. [Cyclops] 301 Blind to the world up in a shebeen in Bride street after closing time..and hugging and smugging.

Derivatives

smugged adj. (also Comb.).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > pleasing appearance > [adjective] > neat or trim
netc1330
pertc1330
cleanc1386
nicec1400
picked?c1425
dapperc1440
feata1471
gim1513
trig1513
well-trimmedc1513
trick1533
smirk1534
tricksy1552
neat1559
netty1573
deft1579
primpc1590
briska1593
smug1598
spruce1598
sprink1602
terse1602
compt1632
nitle1673
sprig1675
snod1691
tight1697
smugged1706
snug1714
pensy1718
fitty1746
jemmy1751
sprucy1774
smartc1778
natty1785
spry1806
perjink1808
soigné1821
nutty1823
toiletted1823
taut1829
spick and span1846
spicy1846
groomed1853
spiffy1853
well-groomed1865
bandboxy1870
perjinkity1880
spick-span1888
bandbox1916
tiddly1925
whip-smart1937
spit and polish1950
spit-and-polished1977
1706 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1885) I. 217 Dr. Green was a little spruce smugg'd fac'd..Chaplain.
1719 in T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth IV. 319 Drapers smugg'd Prentices.
ˈsmugging n.1
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > [noun]
tiffing?c1225
hightinga1387
prickinga1425
perching?1578
pranking1580
primpingc1590
sprunkinga1685
prinking1687
smugging1736
titivation1805
beautifying1836
prink1869
dolling1906
makeover1966
1736 R. Ainsworth Thes. Linguæ Latinæ I. (at cited word) A smugging up, ornatus nitidus.
1932 W. H. Auden Orators iii. 104 Only hard On smugging, smartness, and self-regard.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

smugv.2

Brit. /smʌɡ/, U.S. /sməɡ/
Etymology: Of doubtful origin.
slang.
1. transitive. To steal, filch, run away with.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > steal [verb (transitive)]
pick?c1300
takec1300
fetch1377
bribec1405
usurpc1412
rapc1415
to rap and rendc1415
embezzle1495
lifta1529
pilfer1532
suffurate1542
convey?1545
mill1567
prig1567
strike1567
lag1573
shave1585
knave1601
twitch1607
cly1610
asport1621
pinch1632
snapa1639
nap1665
panyar1681
to carry off1684
to pick up1687
thievea1695
to gipsy away1696
bone1699
make1699
win1699
magg1762
snatch1766
to make off with1768
snavel1795
feck1809
shake1811
nail1819
geach1821
pull1821
to run off1821
smug1825
nick1826
abduct1831
swag1846
nobble1855
reef1859
snig1862
find1865
to pull off1865
cop1879
jump1879
slock1888
swipe1889
snag1895
rip1904
snitch1904
pole1906
glom1907
boost1912
hot-stuff1914
score1914
clifty1918
to knock off1919
snoop1924
heist1930
hoist1931
rabbit1943
to rip off1967
to have off1974
1825 T. Hook Sayings & Doings 2nd Ser. I. 320 Some cold cream, which she had smugged from Mrs. Abberly.
1834 R. H. Froude Remains (1838) I. 386 I have had a horse, which I have been cool enough to smug from the Bishop's stables.
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 421/1 After that he used to go ‘smugging’ (running away with) other people's things.
1887 J. W. Horsley Jottings from Jail i. 6 We used to go and smug snowy (steal linen) that was hung out to dry.
2. intransitive. To copy surreptitiously; to crib.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > imitate [verb (intransitive)] > copy or plagiarize
smug1842
1842 Punch 2 3/2 Copying out their notes in little, that they may smug from them, when locked up in the examination-room.
3. transitive. To hush up (a matter).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > keep from knowledge [verb (transitive)] > cover up
smother1579
to shuffle up1588
smother1589
smooth1592
smooth1592
slobber1630
to hush up1632
slubber1646
smooth1684
sopite1746
shade1785
smug1857
hugger-mugger1862
to cover up1926
1857 Morning Chron. 3 Oct. 8/3 She wanted however a guarantee that the case should be smugged, or, in other words, compromised.
4. To arrest, put in prison.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > imprison [verb (transitive)]
beclosec1000
setc1100
steekc1175
prison?c1225
adightc1275
imprison1297
laya1325
keepc1330
presentc1380
locka1400
throwc1422
commise1480
clapc1530
shop1548
to lay up1565
incarcerate1575
embar1590
immure1598
hole1608
trunk1608
to keep (a person) darka1616
carceir1630
enjaila1631
pocket1631
bridewell1733
bastille1745
cage1805
quod1819
bag1824
carcerate1839
to send down1840
jug1841
slough1848
to send up1852
to put away1859
warehouse1881
roundhouse1889
smug1896
to bang up1950
1896 A. Morrison Child of Jago 247 His father had been smugged.

Derivatives

ˈsmugging n.2 (See quots.)
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > [noun]
theft688
stalec950
stealc1200
stoutha1300
stealing13..
stealtha1325
lifting1362
briberya1387
stoutheriec1440
larcenya1475
larcerya1500
conveyancea1529
thieving1530
bribing1533
larcinc1535
embezzling1540
embezzlement1548
thiefdom?1549
theftdom1566
bribering1567
milling1567
thievery1568
larcinry1634
panyarring1703
abduction1766
smugging1825
pickup1846
lurking1851
make1860
tea-leafing1899
snitching1933
lapping1950
1825 W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1826) I. 253 When any game was out,..it was lawful to steal the thing played with; this was called smugging.
1861 in H. Mayhew London Labour (new ed.) III. 58/2 Landlord (collaring the bell) [stage direct]. Smuggings! pursession is nine points of the law.
1864 J. C. Hotten Slang Dict. (new ed.) 237 Smuggings,..shouted out by boys, when snatching the tops, or small play property, of other lads.
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