Smug vs Nyah - What's the difference?
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As an adjective smug is irritatingly pleased with oneself; self-satisfied. As a verb smug is (obsolete|transitive) to make smug, or spruce. As an interjection nyah is expressing smug triumph.
smug English
Adjective
( smugger)
Irritatingly pleased with oneself; self-satisfied.
- Kate looked extremely smug this morning.
(obsolete) Studiously neat or nice, especially in dress; spruce; affectedly precise; smooth and prim.
* Robynson (More's Utopia)
- They be so smug and smooth.
* De Quincey
- the smug and scanty draperies of his style
* Beaumont and Fletcher
- A young, smug , handsome holiness has no fellow.
Synonyms
* self-satisfied
* complacent
Derived terms
* smugly
* smugness
Verb
( smugg)
(obsolete) To make smug, or spruce.
* Dryton
- Thus said, he smugged his beard, and stroked up fair.
( Webster 1913)
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nyah English
Interjection
( en interjection)
Expressing smug triumph.
* 1993 , Ted Andrews, Enchantment of the faerie realm (page 74)
- When the waves didn't catch me, I would laugh and sing out, "Nyah , nyah, nyah!"
* {{quote-news, year=2009, date=August 7, author=George Vecsey, title=On Big Day for Bronx, Cheating Is Nonissue, work=New York Times citation
, passage=Yankee fans have been saying, Nyah, nyah , I told you so, since the news was revealed in The New York Times. }}
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