different between smark vs smarm

English

Etymology

Blend of smart +? mark

Noun

smark (plural smarks)

1. A fan of professional wrestling who is aware that the matches are scripted but enjoys them nonetheless.

Anagrams

• Marks, marks

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /smark/

Noun

smark m inan

1. (colloquial, usually in the plural) snot (nasal mucus)

   Synonyms: gil, ?pik

Declension

Noun

smark m pers

1. (derogatory) Synonym of smarkacz.

Declension

Related terms

• (verb) smarka?

Further reading

• smark in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• smark in Polish dictionaries at PWN

English

Etymology

The noun is attested since 1914, from the colloquial verb smalm, smarm (“to smear, bedaub (hair, with pomade)”), attested since 1847, of unknown origin, perhaps somehow suggestive of the action. Verbal meaning "to smear with flattery" is from 1902.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sm??(r)m/
• Rhymes: -??(r)m

Noun

smarm (countable and uncountable, plural smarms)

1. Smarmy language or behavior.
2. (fandom slang) A style of fan fiction in which characters are warm and caring toward each other but without sexual overtones.

Verb

smarm (third-person singular simple present smarms, present participle smarming, simple past and past participle smarmed)

1. (intransitive) To fawn, to be unctuous.
2. (transitive) To address in a fawning and unctuous manner.
   • 1874 Frank Usher A strange love vol.2 p.53 (London: Tinsley Bros):

     "If you go to her and smarm her, it will be all right."

     "If I do what to her?" asked Mervyn, wondering what the operation of smarming might be.

     "Of course you don't know," laughed Aggie; "it is a school word. You explain what it means, Isabel."

     "To smarm," explained Isabel, "signifies to say 'yes ma'am,' or 'yes marm,' to a governess when she is rating you. It is ah expressive word, isn't it? It means 'to conciliate by assent;' that is the best definition that I can give of it."

     "Excellent word," said Mervyn. "Then. I am to smarm your mamma, am I, Aggie?["]

   • 1957, Lawrence Durrell, Justine

     He rose ... on his wife's fortune and judicious smarming of powerful people.

References

Anagrams

• MRAMs, Ramms, marms