smurf

Etymology
Borrowed from, from , a word that was created by based on , either simply because it sounds funny to the French ear or based on a regional German use for “idiot”. Armand van Raalte was an employee for the Belgian publisher of Peyo's stories who felt that schtroumpf would not have the same effect in Dutch, so he tried to find a simple word that could be used both as a noun and a verb. The result was smurf. In other languages, the term was similarly altered; compare the translations below.

Noun

 * 1)  A blue pixie with white stocking cap, from the media franchise .
 * 2)  A smurf account.
 * 3)  A smurf attack.
 * 4)  One member of a team, each of whom acquires a small amount of money or ingredients for manufacturing drugs, keeping the transactions too small in order to not raise suspicion.
 * 1)  One member of a team, each of whom acquires a small amount of money or ingredients for manufacturing drugs, keeping the transactions too small in order to not raise suspicion.

Translations

 * Amharic:
 * Arabic: سَنْفُور, سَنَافِر
 * Armenian: սմուրֆ, սմուրֆիկ
 * Basque: pottoki
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 藍精靈
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: smølf
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: smurfo
 * Estonian: smurf
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: სმურფი
 * German:
 * Rhine Franconian: Schlümpp
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: דַּרְדָּס
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: スマーフ, シュトロンフ
 * Korean: 스머프
 * Latvian:
 * Limburgish:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian: штрумф
 * Marathi:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: smurf
 * Nynorsk: smurf
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: estrumpfe, estrunfe,  smurf
 * Romanian: ștrumf
 * Russian: смурф,, штрумпф
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: штрумф
 * Roman: štrumpf
 * Slovak: šmolko
 * Slovene: smrkec
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai: สเมิร์ฟ
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Walloon:
 * Welsh: smyrff

Verb

 * 1)  To split a large financial transaction into smaller ones so as to avoid scrutiny; to carry out structuring.
 * 2)  To carry out a smurf attack against someone.
 * 3)  To use a smurf account.
 * 4)  To perform exceptionally well, as if one's using a smurf account, playing into much inferior opponents.
 * 1)  To perform exceptionally well, as if one's using a smurf account, playing into much inferior opponents.

Etymology
Changed from the original as described above.

Pronunciation




Etymology
1983: after the name of , via  from. See above.

Noun

 * 1) a sort of breakdancing

Etymology
Borrowed from, from.

Interjection

 * 1) jinx