adj
Meaning 1
Elegant; fine; attractive, beautiful.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
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Standard Lemma guide
smicker
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/ˈsmɪkə(ɹ)/
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rhymes with -ɪkə(ɹ)
adj
Meaning 2
Amorous; wanton.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
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adj
Meaning 3
Handsome; spruce; smart, dapper.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
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verb
Meaning 4
To look amorously or wantonly.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, intransitive
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verb
Meaning 5
To look or smile seductively or amorously.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland, archaic, intransitive
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verb
Meaning 6
To laugh or smile in a sniggering or leering way; smirk.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland, archaic, intransitive
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History
Etymology
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”), of uncertain origin, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *smey- (“to smear, stroke, wipe, rub”). Cognate with Middle High German smecker (“neat, elegant”), Ancient Greek σμικρός (smikrós), μικρός (mikrós, “small, short”), Lithuanian smeigti (“to lunge, thrust, jab”), Latin mīca (“crumb, morsel, bit”). For the verb, compare Swedish smickra (“to flatter, coax, wheedle, butter up”), Danish smigre (“to flatter”).