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Slicker vs Smicker - What's the difference?

slicker | smicker |

As adjectives the difference between slicker and smicker

is that slicker is (slick) while smicker is elegant; fine; gay.

As a noun slicker

is one who or that which s.

As a verb smicker is

to look amorously or wantonly; smirk.

slicker

English

Etymology 1

From (slick) (adjective)

Adjective

(head)
  • (slick)

    • Etymology 2

    From

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who or that which s.
  • A waterproof coat or jacket.
  • A person who is perceived as clever, urbane and possibly disreputable. (abbreviation of city slicker.)
  • A kind of burnisher for leather.
  • (metalworking) A curved tool for smoothing the surfaces of a mould after the withdrawal of the pattern.

    • See also

    * city slicker

    Anagrams

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    smicker

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Elegant; fine; gay.
    • No, his deep-reaching spirit could not brook The fond addiction to such vanity; Regardful of his honour he forsook The smicker use of court-humanity. — John Ford.
  • Amorous; wanton.
  • Spruce; smart.
    • A smicker''' boy, a lither swain, Heigh ho, a '''smicker swain, That his love was wanton fain, [...] — Lodge.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To look amorously or wantonly; smirk.

    • Derived terms

    * (l) * (l)