smug

Etymology 1
Possibly from although the g of the English word is not easily explained. From the 🇨🇬 derived also 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬 (now obsolete or dialectal). The ultimate source should be.

Compare 🇨🇬 and, both ultimately from , hence 🇨🇬, and. The adjective, however, was borrowed from 🇨🇬. See for more.

Adjective

 * 1) Irritatingly pleased with oneself; offensively self-complacent, self-satisfied.
 * 2) Showing smugness; showing self-complacency, self-satisfaction.
 * 3)  Studiously neat or nice, especially in dress; spruce; affectedly precise; smooth and prim.
 * 1)  Studiously neat or nice, especially in dress; spruce; affectedly precise; smooth and prim.
 * 1)  Studiously neat or nice, especially in dress; spruce; affectedly precise; smooth and prim.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:arrogant
 * See also Thesaurus:arrogant
 * See also Thesaurus:arrogant
 * See also Thesaurus:arrogant

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:, petulant
 * Chinese:
 * Literary Chinese: 躊躇
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: selvfed, selvgod
 * Dutch:
 * Faroese: sjálvglaður, sjálvgóður
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:, ,
 * Galician: oufano,, pimpante, xactancioso,
 * Georgian: თვითკმაყოფილი
 * German:, , , , selbstzufrieden, , ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:, autocompiaciuto
 * Japanese:, 調子に乗る
 * Maori: whakaī, whakakake
 * Norwegian: selvgod
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Punjabi:, ਮਨਮੌਜੀ
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Slovak: samoľúby
 * Spanish:, , ,
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Ukrainian: самовдово́лений

Verb

 * 1)  To make smug, or spruce.
 * 2)  to adopt an offensively self-complacent expression.
 * 3) * 1899 Ambrose Bierce:  Fantastic Fables.
 * Hearing a sound of strife, a Christian in the Orient asked his Dragoman the cause of it."The Buddhists are cutting Mohammedan throats," the Dragoman replied, with oriental composure."I did not know," remarked the Christian, with scientific interest, "that that would make so much noise.""The Mohammedans are cutting Buddhist throats, too," added the Dragoman."It is astonishing," mused the Christian, "how violent and how general are religious animosities. Everywhere in the world the devotees of each local faith abhor the devotees of every other, and abstain from murder only so long as they dare not commit it.  And the strangest thing about it is that all religions are erroneous and mischievous excepting mine. Mine, thank God, is true and benign."So saying he visibly smugged and went off to telegraph for a brigade of cutthroats to protect Christian interests.
 * Hearing a sound of strife, a Christian in the Orient asked his Dragoman the cause of it."The Buddhists are cutting Mohammedan throats," the Dragoman replied, with oriental composure."I did not know," remarked the Christian, with scientific interest, "that that would make so much noise.""The Mohammedans are cutting Buddhist throats, too," added the Dragoman."It is astonishing," mused the Christian, "how violent and how general are religious animosities. Everywhere in the world the devotees of each local faith abhor the devotees of every other, and abstain from murder only so long as they dare not commit it.  And the strangest thing about it is that all religions are erroneous and mischievous excepting mine. Mine, thank God, is true and benign."So saying he visibly smugged and went off to telegraph for a brigade of cutthroats to protect Christian interests.
 * 1)  To seize; to confiscate.
 * 2)  To hush up.

Noun

 * 1)  The smuggling trade.
 * 2) * 1830, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on the East India Company, Report ... China Trade (page 397)
 * Have not they some term by which they distinguish the illicit trade? — They usually call it the Smug-pigeon.

Etymology
From 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) in secret, hidden

Etymology
From the verb.

Noun

 * 1) an alley or alleyway

Noun

 * 1) narrow strip of meadow or, less commonly, of a field or forest
 * 2) any meadow, especially one that is marshy