smerkとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

smerk (plural smerks) pp

1. Dated form of smirk.
   • 1859, Charles Reade, Love Me Little, Love Me Long:

     “Ah! what a capital idea! then we shall pass for sisters. I dare say I have got some old thing or other that will match yours; but you had better tell me at once what you do mean to wear.”
     “A gown, a pair of gloves, and a smerk”; and with this heartless expression of nonchalance Lucy glided away and escaped the impending shower.

動詞

smerk (third-person singular simple present smerks, present participle smerking, simple past and past participle smerked)

1. Dated form of smirk.

形容詞

smerk (comparative more smerk, superlative most smerk)

1. (obsolete) (Can we verify this sense?)smart; jaunty; spruce
   • 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Februarie. Aegloga Se[c]unda.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], →OCLC:

     So smerk, so smooth, his pricked ears.

同意語

• smerky

アナグラム

• Kmers, Merks, kmers, merks, Krems