smickerとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 smiker, from 古期英語 smicer, smicor (“beauteous, beautiful, elegant, fair, fine, neat, tasteful”), from Proto-West Germanic *smikr, from Proto-Germanic *smikraz (“fine, elegant, delicate, tender”), from Proto-Indo-European *smēyg- (“small, delicate”), from Proto-Indo-European *smē-, *smey- (“to smear, stroke, wipe, rub”). Cognate with Middle High German smecker (“neat, elegant”), Ancient Greek σμικρός (smikrós), μικρός (mikrós, “small, short”), Lithuanian smeigti (“to lunge, thrust, jab”), Latin mīca (“crumb, morsel, bit”).

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

発音

• IPA: /ˈsmɪkə(ɹ)/
• 韻: -ɪkə(ɹ)

形容詞

smicker (comparative more smicker, superlative most smicker)

1. (archaic) Elegant; fine; attractive, beautiful.
   • 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. (archaic) Amorous; wanton.
3. (archaic) Handsome, spruce; smart, dapper.
   • 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, […]

動詞

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

1. (intransitive, archaic) To look amorously or wantonly.
   • 1808, original 1668, John Dryden, Walter Scott, An Evening's Love:

     […] Maskall, must you be smickering after wenches, while I am in calamity?

2. (intransitive, chiefly Scotland) To look or smile seductively or amorously.
3. (intransitive, chiefly Scotland) To laugh or smile in a sniggering or leering way; smirk.
   • 2014, Crystal Evans, Every Man Deserves A Good Jacket, page 116:

     I gave him a questioning look and he hurled a pillow at me. “Who you a look pon so?” “Me baby father” He smickered.

派生語

• smickering
• smickly

アナグラム

• Emricks, Remicks