smoothie

• smoothy

smooth +‎ -ie

• IPA^(key): /ˈsmuːði/

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• Rhymes: -uːði

smoothie (plural smoothies)

1. A smooth-talking person.
   • 2003, Michael Lydon, Flashbacks: Eyewitness Accounts of the Rock Revolution, 1964-1974, page 7:

     True to their reputations, Paul was a smoothie who put a public relations gloss on everything he said, and John was abrasive and sarcastic, speaking his mind and letting the chips fall where they may.

2. A drink made from whole fruit, thus thicker than fruit juice.
   • 2016, Ian McEwan, Nutshell, Vintage, page 10:

     Sometimes he brings her smoothies from his favourite place on Judd Street. He has a weakness for these glutinous confections that are supposed to extend his life.

3. (figurative) A blending of different things, a mishmash
   • 2014, J. Steven Young, Blue Screen of Death, Speedy Publishing LLC, →ISBN:

     He shook his head and cleared the pentup anger and sadness that mixed his mind into a smoothie of emotions he bottled up inside, then scolded himself for allowing the outburst.

4. A member of the mod subculture who is relatively non-violent and wears expensive clothing.
   • 1987, John Irwin (quoting Piri Thomas), The Felon

     The decision to cool myself made the next two years the hardest I had done because it meant being a smoothie and staying out of trouble, which in prison is difficult, […]

   • 1999, Nick Johnstone, Abel Ferrara: The King of New York, page viii:

     Film Comment's David Chute described him as: "small, stringy and intense, but he's better dressed and groomed (than Ferrara), less of a punk and more of a smoothie."

   • 2011, Gerard DeGroot (quoting Brown), Seventies Unplugged

     […] mods, skins, suedes, smoothies, punks, skunks, rude boys, soul boys and headbangers […]

• thickie

Borrowed from English smoothie.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsmuː.di/, /ˈsmuː.ti/, [ˈsmuː.ði], [ˈsmuː.di], [ˈsmuː.θi], [ˈsmuː.ti]

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• Hyphenation: smoo‧thie

smoothie m (plural smoothies)

1. A smoothie.

• groentesmoothie
• smoothiebar
• vruchtensmoothie

Unadapted borrowing from English smoothie.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsmuːt(ː)i/, [ˈs̠muːt̪(ː)i]
• IPA^(key): /ˈsmuːtie/, [ˈs̠muːt̪ie̞]
• Syllabification^(key): smoot‧hie

smoothie

1. smoothie (beverage)

Kotus recommends the top one, but the bottom one is more common.

• survelo (rare)

• “smoothie”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

smoothie m (plural smoothies)

1. smoothie (beverage)