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{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*smēyg-",
"t": "small, delicate"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *smēyg- (“small, delicate”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*smē-"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *smē-",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "gmh",
"2": "smecker",
"t": "neat, elegant"
},
"expansion": "Middle High German smecker (“neat, elegant”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "grc",
"2": "σμικρός"
},
"expansion": "Ancient Greek σμικρός (smikrós)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "lt",
"2": "smeigti",
"t": "to lunge, thrust, jab"
},
"expansion": "Lithuanian smeigti (“to lunge, thrust, jab”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "mīca",
"t": "crumb, morsel, bit"
},
"expansion": "Latin mīca (“crumb, morsel, bit”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "smickra",
"t": "to flatter, coax, wheedle, butter up"
},
"expansion": "Swedish smickra (“to flatter, coax, wheedle, butter up”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "da",
"2": "smigre",
"t": "to flatter"
},
"expansion": "Danish smigre (“to flatter”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English smiker, from Old English smicer, smicor (“beauteous, beautiful, elegant, fair, fine, neat, tasteful”), from Proto-West Germanic *smikr, from Proto-Germanic *smikraz (“fine, elegant, delicate, tender”), from Proto-Indo-European *smēyg- (“small, delicate”), from Proto-Indo-European *smē-, *smey- (“to smear, stroke, wipe, rub”). Cognate with Middle High German smecker (“neat, elegant”), Ancient Greek σμικρός (smikrós), μικρός (mikrós, “small, short”), Lithuanian smeigti (“to lunge, thrust, jab”), Latin mīca (“crumb, morsel, bit”).\nFor the verb, compare Swedish smickra (“to flatter, coax, wheedle, butter up”), Danish smigre (“to flatter”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "smickers",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "smickering",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "smickered",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "smickered",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "smicker (third-person singular simple present smickers, present participle smickering, simple past and past participle smickered)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with archaic senses",
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1808, original 1668, John Dryden, Walter Scott, An Evening's Love:",
"text": "[…] Maskall, must you be smickering after wenches, while I am in calamity?",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To look amorously or wantonly."
],
"links": [
[
"look",
"look"
],
[
"amorous",
"amorous"
],
[
"wanton",
"wanton"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive, archaic) To look amorously or wantonly."
],
"tags": [
"archaic",
"intransitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs",
"Scottish English"
],
"glosses": [
"To look or smile seductively or amorously."
],
"links": [
[
"look",
"look"
],
[
"smile",
"smile"
],
[
"seductive",
"seductive"
],
[
"amorous",
"amorous"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive, chiefly Scotland) To look or smile seductively or amorously."
],
"tags": [
"Scotland",
"intransitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned",
"Scottish English"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2014, Crystal Evans, Every Man Deserves A Good Jacket, page 116:",
"text": "I gave him a questioning look and he hurled a pillow at me. “Who you a look pon^([sic]) so?” “Me baby father” He smickered.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To laugh or smile in a sniggering or leering way; smirk."
],
"links": [
[
"laugh",
"laugh"
],
[
"smile",
"smile"
],
[
"sniggering",
"sniggering"
],
[
"leering",
"leering"
],
[
"smirk",
"smirk"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive, chiefly Scotland) To laugh or smile in a sniggering or leering way; smirk."
],
"tags": [
"Scotland",
"intransitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈsmɪkə(ɹ)/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪkə(ɹ)"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"tags": [
"Scotland"
],
"word": "smikker"
}
],
"word": "smicker"
}
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