different between smug vs elaborate

English

Etymology

Possibly from Middle Low German smuk (“lithe, delicate, neat, trim”) although the g of the English word is not easily explained. From the Low German derived also North Frisian smok, Danish smuk and Swedish smukk (now obsolete or dialectal). The ultimate source should be Proto-Germanic *smeugan?.

Compare Middle High German gesmuc (“ornament”) and smücken (“to dress, to adorn”), both ultimately from smiegen (“to press to, insert, wrap, to nestle”), hence German schmiegen, Schmuck and schmücken. The adjective schmuck, however, was borrowed from Low German. See smock for more.

Pronunciation

• enPR: sm?g, IPA^(key): /sm??/
• Rhymes: -??

Adjective

smug (comparative smugger, superlative smuggest)

1. Irritatingly pleased with oneself, offensively self-complacent, self-satisfied.

2. Showing smugness, showing self-complacency, self-satisfaction.

3. (obsolete) Studiously neat or nice, especially in dress; spruce; affectedly precise; smooth and prim.
   • 1556, Raphe Robynson, More’s Utopia: The English Translation thereof

     They be so smug and smooth.

   • 1828, Thomas De Quincey, Elements of Rhetoric (published in Blackwood's Magazine)

     the smug and scanty draperies of his style

   • A young, smug, handsome holiness has no fellow.

Synonyms

• gloaty
• self-satisfied
• complacent
• See also Thesaurus:arrogant

Derived terms

• smugly
• smugness

Translations

Verb

smug (third-person singular simple present smugs, present participle smugging, simple past and past participle smugged)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To make smug, or spruce.

   • Thus said, he smug'd his beard, and stroked up fair.

2. (obsolete, transitive) To seize; to confiscate.
3. (obsolete, transitive, slang) To hush up.

Further reading

• smug in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• smug in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Gums, MGUs, gums, mugs

Danish

Etymology

From Danish smyge

Noun

smug

1. in secret, hidden

Derived terms

• i smug

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• smau (Nynorsk also)

Etymology

From the verb smyge

Noun

smug n (definite singular smuget, indefinite plural smug, definite plural smuga or smugene)

1. an alley or alleyway (usually for pedestrians)

References

• “smug” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /smuk/

Noun

smug m inan

1. A narrow strip of meadow or, less commonly, of a field or forest.
2. Any meadow, especially one that is marshy.
3. (archaic) Alternative form of smuga (“streak, trail, contrail”).

Declension

Noun

smug f

1. genitive plural of smuga

Further reading

• smug in Polish dictionaries at PWN

English

Etymology

1575, from Late Latin ?lab?r?tus (“worked out”), past participle of ?lab?r? (“to work out”), from ?- (“out, forth, fully”) + labor (“work, toil, exertion”). More at e-, labour.

Pronunciation

• Adjective: ?l?'b?r?t, IPA^(key): /??læb???t/
• Verb: ?l?'b?r?t, IPA^(key): /??læb??e?t/

Adjective

elaborate (comparative more elaborate, superlative most elaborate)

1. Complex, detailed, or sophisticated.

2. Intricate, fancy, flashy, or showy.

   • The house was a big elaborate limestone affair, evidently new. Winter sunshine sparkled on lace-hung casement, on glass marquise, and the burnished bronze foliations of grille and door.

Translations

Verb

elaborate (third-person singular simple present elaborates, present participle elaborating, simple past and past participle elaborated)

1. (transitive) to develop in detail or complexity
   • 1871, "Bismarck", All the Year Round (volume 5, page 129)

     […] by the time of the subsequent coronation, when the Prussian king put the crown on his own head in child-like belief of the obsolete doctrine called divine right, the untiring statesman had elaborated his scheme of reform.
2. (intransitive) (sometimes followed by on or upon, and then the object of the preposition) to expand/enlarge in detail

   What do you mean you didn't come home last night? Would you care to elaborate?

   Could you elaborate on the plot for your novel for me?

Translations

Ido

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /elabo?rate/

Verb

elaborate

1. adverbial present passive participle of elaborar

Italian

Adjective

elaborate

1. feminine plural of elaborato

Verb

elaborate

1. second-person plural present indicative of elaborare
2. second-person plural imperative of elaborare
3. feminine plural of the past participle of elaborare

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /e?.la.bo??ra?.te/, [e???äbo???ä?t??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /e.la.bo?ra.te/, [?l?b?????t??]

Verb

?lab?r?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of ?lab?r?