different between wantonly vs smicker
wantonly
English
Etymology
From Middle English wantounly, wantounliche, equivalent to wanton +? -ly.
Adverb
wantonly (comparative more wantonly, superlative most wantonly)
- in a wanton manner.
See also
- wontedly
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smicker
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)
- 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.
- No, his deep-reaching spirit could not brook
- 1606, John Ford, Fame's Memorial
- Amorous; wanton.
- 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, […]
- A smicker boy, a lither swain,
- 1590, Thomas Lodge, "Corydon’s Song", in Rosalynde
Verb
smicker (third-person singular simple present smickers, present participle smickering, simple past and past participle smickered)
- (intransitive) To look amorously or wantonly
Derived terms
- smickering
- smickly
Anagrams
- Emricks, Remicks
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