smerk
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /smɜː(ɹ)k/
- Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)k
Noun
smerk (plural smerks)
- Dated form of smirk.
- 1859, Charles Reade, Love Me Little, Love Me Long
- “Ah! what a capital idea! then we shall pass for sisters. I dare say I have got some old thing or other that will match yours; but you had better tell me at once what you do mean to wear.”
“A gown, a pair of gloves, and a smerk”; and with this heartless expression of nonchalance Lucy glided away and escaped the impending shower.
- “Ah! what a capital idea! then we shall pass for sisters. I dare say I have got some old thing or other that will match yours; but you had better tell me at once what you do mean to wear.”
- 1859, Charles Reade, Love Me Little, Love Me Long
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) (Can we verify(+) this sense?)smart; jaunty; spruce
- 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Februarie. Aegloga Se[c]unda.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], →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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)