- smerk (dated) smirke (archaic)
Noun
smirk (plural smirks)
- An uneven, often crooked smile that is insolent, self-satisfied, conceited or scornful.
- A forced or affected smile.
- Synonyms: simper, (vulgar) shit-eating grin
1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:The bride, all smirk and blush, had just entered.
2003, Brian Herbert, “Xanadu”, in Dreamer of Dune, New York: Tom Doherty Associates, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 259:We sat at a long table with a huge salmon on a platter in the center, prepared Szechuan style. Dad sat at one end of the table, and regaled all present with his stories. In the middle of one convoluted yarn, he rose and went around to the salmon in the center of the table. Using his fingers, he dug an eyeball out of the fish, popped it in his mouth and swallowed it whole as we looked on, aghast. “A real delicacy,” he said, with a boyish smirk.
Translations
smile that is insolent, offensively self-satisfied or scornful
- Arabic: إِهْلَاس m (ʔihlās)
- Bulgarian: престорена усмивка (prestorena usmivka)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 壞笑/坏笑 (huàixiào)
- Czech: úšklebek m
- Dutch: grijnslach (nl)
- Finnish: virne (fi), virnistys (fi), omahyväinen hymy
- French: sourire en coin (fr) m, ricanerie (fr) f
- German: Geschmunzel n
- Hungarian: bazsalygás, somolygás
- Irish: leamh-mheangadh m, straois f, streill f, siotgháire m
- Italian: smorfia (it) f, sorrisetto m
- Russian: ухмы́лка (ru) (uxmýlka)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: кес m
- Roman: kes (sh) m
- Spanish: sonrisita f, mueca (es) f, sonrisa de suficiencia f, sonrisa complacida f, sonrisa de satisfacción f, sonrisa de complicidad f, sonrisa satisfecha, sonrisa de superioridad
- Ukrainian: по́смішка f (pósmiška)
- Welsh: cilwen (cy) f
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Verb
smirk (third-person singular simple present smirks, present participle smirking, simple past and past participle smirked)
- To smile in a way that is affected, smug, insolent or contemptuous.
Translations
to smile in a way that is affected, smug, insolent or contemptuous