different between smicker vs smacker

English

Etymology

From Middle English smiker, from Old English smicer, smicor (“beauteous, beautiful, elegant, fair, fine, neat, tasteful”), from Proto-Germanic *smikraz (“fine, elegant, delicate, tender”), from Proto-Indo-European *sm?yg- (“small, delicate”), from Proto-Indo-European *sm?-, *smey- (“to smear, stroke, wipe, rub”). Cognate with Middle High German smecker (“neat, elegant”), Ancient Greek ??????? (smikrós), ?????? (mikrós, “small, short”), Lithuanian smeigti (“to lunge, thrust, jab”), Latin m?ca (“crumb, morsel, bit”).

For the verb, compare Swedish smickra (“to flatter, coax, wheedle, butter up”), Danish smigre (“to flatter”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sm?k?(?)/

Adjective

smicker (comparative more smicker, superlative most smicker)

1. Elegant; fine; gay.
   • 1606, John Ford, Fame's Memorial

     No, his deep-reaching spirit could not brook
     The fond addiction to such vanity;
     Regardful of his honour he forsook
     The smicker use of court-humanity.

2. Amorous; wanton.
3. Spruce; smart.
   • 1590, Thomas Lodge, "Corydon’s Song", in Rosalynde

     A smicker boy, a lither swain,
     Heigh ho, a smicker swain,
     That his love was wanton fain, […]

Verb

smicker (third-person singular simple present smickers, present participle smickering, simple past and past participle smickered)

1. (intransitive) To look amorously or wantonly

Derived terms

• smickering
• smickly

Anagrams

• Emricks, Remicks

English

Etymology

smack +? -er

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æk?(r)

Noun

smacker (plural smackers)

1. One who smacks or spanks.
   • 2001, Eric F. Fagan, Cast Your Net

     It makes no difference whether the SMC is the smacker or the smackee. Does the SMC talk about physical violence in a matter-of-fact way? This isn't passion; it is evidence of sickness.

2. One who makes a smacking noise, especially while eating.
3. (slang) A kiss.
4. (plural only) The lips.
5. (colloquial) A dollar.
6. (Britain, colloquial, usually in the plural) A pound (money).

Related terms

• smackeroo
• smackeroonies

Anagrams

• Cermaks