Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to smug
Participle: smugged
Gerund: smugging
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | smug |
| you | smug |
| he;she;it | smugs |
| we | smug |
| you | smug |
| they | smug |
Perfect
| I | have smugged |
| you | have smugged |
| he;she;it | has smugged |
| we | have smugged |
| you | have smugged |
| they | have smugged |
Past
| I | smugged |
| you | smugged |
| he;she;it | smugged |
| we | smugged |
| you | smugged |
| they | smugged |
Pluperfect
| I | had smugged |
| you | had smugged |
| he;she;it | had smugged |
| we | had smugged |
| you | had smugged |
| they | had smugged |
Future
| I | will smug |
| you | will smug |
| he;she;it | will smug |
| we | will smug |
| you | will smug |
| they | will smug |
Future Perfect
| I | will have smugged |
| you | will have smugged |
| he;she;it | will have smugged |
| we | will have smugged |
| you | will have smugged |
| they | will have smugged |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | smug |
| you | smug |
| he;she;it | smug |
| we | smug |
| you | smug |
| they | smug |
Perfect
| I | have smugged |
| you | have smugged |
| he;she;it | have smugged |
| we | have smugged |
| you | have smugged |
| they | have smugged |
Imperfect
| I | smugged |
| you | smugged |
| he;she;it | smugged |
| we | smugged |
| you | smugged |
| they | smugged |
Pluperfect
| I | had smugged |
| you | had smugged |
| he;she;it | had smugged |
| we | had smugged |
| you | had smugged |
| they | had smugged |
Conditional
Present
| I | would smug |
| you | would smug |
| he;she;it | would smug |
| we | would smug |
| you | would smug |
| they | would smug |
Perfect
| I | would have smugged |
| you | would have smugged |
| he;she;it | would have smugged |
| we | would have smugged |
| you | would have smugged |
| they | would have smugged |
Imperative
| you | smug |
| we | Let's smug |
| you | smug |
Verbs conjugated like 'smug'
abet,
abhor,
abut,
acquit,
admit,
affrap,
allot,
alum,
amel,
amit,
anagram,
anvil,
apparel,
aret,
arret,
assot,
astun,
attrap,
augur,
avel, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'smug'
mug,
scug,
shug,
skug,
slug,
smeg,
smog,
smur,
smut,
snug,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Originally "spruce, neat," from Low German smuk (“pretty”), from Middle Low German smuk (“lithe, delicate, neat, trim”), although the g of the English word is not easily explained. The ultimate source should be Proto-West Germanic *smeugan (“to crawl, creep”).
2. From the Low German derived also North Frisian smok, Danish smuk and Swedish smukk (now obsolete or dialectal).
3. Compare also 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. See: German, old spelling '
schmiegen'.
Sample Sentences
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Thus said, he smug'd his beard, and stroked up fair. [1612, Michael Drayton, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [John Selden], editor, Poly-Olbion. Or A Chorographicall Description of Tracts, Riuers, Mountaines, Forests, and Other Parts of this Renowned Isle of Great Britaine, […], London: […] [Humphrey Lownes] for M[athew] Lownes; I[ohn] Browne; I[ohn] Helme; I[ohn] Busbie, →OCLC:]
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1899 Ambrose Bierce: Fantastic Fables.
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Hearing a sound of strife, a Christian in the Orient asked his Dragoman the cause of it.
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"The Buddhists are cutting Mohammedan throats," the Dragoman replied, with oriental composure.
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"I did not know," remarked the Christian, with scientific interest, "that that would make so much noise."
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"The Mohammedans are cutting Buddhist throats, too," added the Dragoman.
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"It is astonishing," mused the Christian, "how violent and how general are religious animosities.
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Everywhere in the world the devotees of each local faith abhor the devotees of every other, and abstain
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from murder only so long as they dare not commit it. And the strangest thing about it is that
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all religions are erroneous and mischievous excepting mine. Mine, thank God, is true and benign."
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So saying he visibly smugged and went off to telegraph for a brigade of cutthroats to protect Christian interests.