smerk
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /smɜː(ɹ)k/
- Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)k
Verb
smerk (third-person singular simple present smerks, present participle smerking, simple past and past participle smerked)
- Dated form of smirk.
Adjective
smerk (comparative more smerk, superlative most smerk)
- (obsolete) smart; jaunty; spruce
- 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Februarie. Aegloga Se[c]unda.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC; republished as The Shepheardes Calender […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], 1586, →OCLC:
- So smerk, so smooth, his pricked ears.
Synonyms
- smerky
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “smerk”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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